What the world needs now is love...sweet, unfailing, undeserving love

God has been teaching me a lot about His love lately...being loved by Him, loving Him, and loving others.

Being loved by Him and loving Him are two things I cannot even begin to understand. I tend to get stuck on certain songs and one of the songs I am currently stuck on is "Remedy" by David Crowder Band. My favorite lines in the song are, "So we lift up our voices/We open our hands/To cling to a love/That we can't comprehend." Cling to a love that we can't comprehend. Even though I don't understand it, all I want to do is cling to His love with all that I have. Well, part of me does...there is part of me that only wants the things of this world. I know God's is all I need, yet I still want the world. And yet He still loves me - a person whose heart/desires is torn. God's love is constantly amazing me because I don't understand how the Creator of the universe wants to love someone like me...someone so undeserving.

I think sometimes I think focus so much more on my inabilities instead of Christ's strength and grace. Which is where I come in with loving others. Lately, I have been really focused on all the times I fail in my ability to love. When I choose not to love, instead of trying to love like Christ loves me. But God is all of His faithfulness reminded me a lot about loving others last night at the Verge. As I am preparing to leave for Wales in a few short months I am reminded of this, but more importantly as I live each day where God has placed me I yearn for my answers to these questions God has placed on my heart to be yes...


Do you love the child with the attitude? Who slams the door in your face and talks back without regard...do you truly love her?
Do you love the guys who seem to have a passionate relationship with Christ but never say hello to you? The ones who act annoyed when you try to speak with them...do you truly love them?
Do you love the girl who seems to have it all? Money, good looks, a personality which draws others to her, the boys' attention...do you really love her?
Do you love the professor who piles on the work? The one who seems to forget you have other classes and is always in a foul mood...do you truly love him?
Do you the love the teenager who is a know-it-all? The girl who craves attentions, who desparately needs it but goes about getting it the wrong way...do you truly love her?
Do you love the man who broke your heart into pieces? The one who you thought would protect you, but failed to do so...do you truly love him?
Do you love the one who can do nothing for you?
Do you love the one who will do nothing for you?
Do you love the one who annoys you? Hurts you? Angers you? Scarred you? Disgusts you? Irritates you? Slanders you? Uses you?
Do you love him?
Do you love her?
Do you love your enemies?
Do you love your neighbor?
Because I do...I went to the cross for them, too...

"My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn't know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can't know him if you don't love. This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. This is the kind of love we are talking about—not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they've done to our relationship with God. My dear, dear friends, if God loved us like this, we certainly ought to love each other. No one has seen God, ever. But if we love one another, God dwells deeply within us, and his love becomes complete in us—perfect love! We, though, are going to love—love and be loved. First we were loved, now we love. He loved us first.If anyone boasts, "I love God," and goes right on hating his brother or sister, thinking nothing of it, he is a liar. If he won't love the person he can see, how can he love the God he can't see? The command we have from Christ is blunt: Loving God includes loving people. You've got to love both." ~ 1 John 4:7-12, 19-21 (The Message)

I must love because He first loved me...and though I am weak in my ability to love, His power is made perfect in my weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9)