Love her because God loves her. Love him because God loves him.
It is easy to say we love God, but we don’t always faithfully walk and demonstrate the love we say we have for him. If we desire to truly follow Christ, whatever God loves, we must also love, regardless of how hard it may seem (John 13:34-35).
If we say we love God, and God also loves the person who offended or hurt us, we must also love that person. We can not choose who we should love from the people or things God loves. For God so loved the world that He gave us His one and only son so that we may believe in him (John 3:16). No matter how challenging it may be, what the Lord loves, we must also love and what the Lord hates, we must also hate. This should be our daily standard of living (1 Peter 4:8).
We must follow Christ wholeheartedly and not just with words (2 Chronicles 25:2). As children of God, we must love the things God considers good and constantly think about things that are true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent, or praiseworthy (Philippians 4:8).
We can not wish evil on the ones God delights in. We can not resent those whom He created wonderfully and beautifully or those He made in his own image. Above all, why would we even let resentment come between us and our brothers and sisters in Christ who are from the same bloodline, with the same privilege given to us through the Scripture, having the same Father and most importantly going to the same place (The Kingdom of God)? Why would we want to do that? That will not make our heavenly Father proud of us at all (1 Corinthians 13:1-13).
We must remain one with Christ at all times (Colossians 3:14). Therefore, when resentment, jealousy, bitterness and other things that are against the knowledge of God arise against another fellow brother or sister in Christ, we must not give it room to develop to become a sin. Remember that God loves them, so we also must love them.
I pray this will be a revelation that will change your perspective and help you to demonstrate the Love of Christ to people in your world who may seem undeserving of your love. We must love because He commanded us to (Matthew 5:43–44).
Further Bible reading:
- 1 Corinthians 16:14: Let all that you do be done in love.
- John 15:13: Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
- John 13:34-35: A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- Proverbs 10:12: Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
- 1 John 4:7: Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
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