Unconditional Love

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and, Love your neighbor as yourself. (Luke 10:27 NIV)

Unconditional love - the ability to love people who hold different beliefs, practice different lifestyles and hold distinctly different priorities from your own.

The love required to love those who are different from us will always be supernatural. I can’t do this in my own strength but with the Holy Spirit living inside me I can do it.

I must be a willing vessel to be used by God, not just toward people whom I love and agree with, but to people whom I may find difficult or disagree with. We have to reach out to those around us, who God puts in our space, to show His Love to be that light on the hill that can’t be hidden. Shining brightly for all to see.

Because of His unconditional love for all people, we often find God in the midst of places and situations where we least expect Him - on the street corners and in alleyways, in hospitals and prisons, orphanages and courtrooms.

Be challenged today to live outside of yourself. Stop and give time to people you may not normally associate with, be aware of your surroundings and of people who may need the love of Christ lavished on them today – through you. Be willing to be a vessel used by God, not just toward people whom you love and agree with, but to people whom you may find difficult or disagree with.

Ask God to give you wisdom and strength to be Christ-like to each and every person you encounter.

Be blessed and be a blessing!

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