L-O-V-E

So I've been thinking a lot about love lately. The greatest commands in the bible are about love, yet we hear them so often that we no longer take them seriously. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and love your neighbor as yourself. the reason loving God comes first, besides the obvious, is because we don't know how to love properly without Him. We love because Christ first loved. There are some people that are so freakin hard to love, but we are still commanded to love them. How impossible does that seem on our own? How hard would that be without Christ's ultimate example of love to look to for guiadance? The reason we hear this command so much is because it is so important! How can we forget what a big difference it makes when you love someone! What an example, what a testimony to your witness when you love the people who are hard to love. The smelly man who obviously hasn't showered in a while. The rude person who waited on you at the store. The arrogant business man that you have to wait on, who treats you like the scum of the earth. How shocked would they be if you loved them? Wouldnt people ask questions more? People would most certainley notice a difference between you and the rest of the world. We as christians, need to rebel against so much of what culture is pushing on us. more to come later.