If you say I LOVE YOU while you hate your brother or sister, you are a liar. How can you love God whom you do not see if you don't love your brother whom you see? We received from His commandment: let those who love God also love their brothers. 1 John 4:20-21.
Did you had a fight with your friend? Did you say something that might hurt others? Do you forgive the ones you love everytime they hurt you? Yes my brothers and sisters, it is really hard to forgive but bear in mind that we should love one another as Our Father in heaven loves us. Everytime we pray the Lord's Prayer we always recite: FORGIVE US OUR SINS AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO SINNED AGAINST US. But.. do we really forgive our brothers who sinned against us? It is you and God alone who knows the answer..
DO YOU REALLY LOVE GOD?
By bingrecto - Posted on March 25th, 2009
God is Love", but how do we define it? The American Heritage Dictionary defines love as "an intense affection for another person based on familial or personal ties". Often this "intense affection" stems from a sexual attraction for that other person. We love other people, or we say we love other people, when we are attracted to them and when they make us feel good. Notice that a key phrase in the dictionary definition of love is the phrase "based on". This phrase implies that we love conditionally; in other words, we love someone because they fulfill a condition that we require before we can love them. How many times have you heard or said, "I love you because you are cute;" or "I love you because you take good care of me;" or "I love you because you are fun to be with"?
Our love is not only conditional, it is also mercurial. We love based levitra on feelings and emotions that can change from one moment to the next. The divorce rate is extremely high in today's society because husbands and wives supposedly stop loving one another-or they "fall out of love". They may go through a rough patch in their marriage, and they no longer "feel" love for their spouse, so they call it quits. Evidently, their marriage vow of "till death do us part" means they can part at xenical the death of their love for their spouse rather than at their physical death.
Can anyone really comprehend "unconditional" love? It seems the love that parents have for their children is as close to unconditional love as we can get without the help of God's love in our lives. We continue to love our children through good times and bad, and we don't stop loving them if they don't meet the expectations we may have for them.buy soma We make a choice to love our children even when we consider them unlovable; our love doesn't stop when we don't "feel" love for them. This is similar to God's love for us, but as we shall see, God's love transcends the human definition of love to a point that is hard for us to comprehend.
It is a comforting thought to forgive and be forgiven by enemies. Ephesians 4:32