The Power to Love

The Power to Love...Max Lucado
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
“This is what God commands:…that we love each other.”
I John 3:23

Does bumping into certain people leave you brittle, breakable, and fruitless? Do you easily fall apart? If so, your love may be grounded in the wrong soil.
It may be rooted in their love (which is fickle) or in your resolve to love (which is frail).
John urges us to “rely on the love God has for us” (I John 4:16 NIV, emphasis mine).
He alone is the power source.

Many people tell us to love. Only God gives us the power to do so.

We know what God wants us to do.
“This is what God commands:…that we love each other” (I John 3:23). But how can we? How can we be kind to the vow breakers? To those who are unkind to us? How can we be patient with people who have the warmth of a vulture and the tenderness of a porcupine?
How can we forgive the money grubbers and backstabbers we meet, love, and marry?
How can we love as God loves? We want to. We long to. But how can we?

By living loved.

(Hmmmmm....don't know how to do that Lord.)(My comment.)