I am always amazed at the creation of God - humans. Not only we have different look and different skin colour, we also have different character and personality.
Once, as I read the Bible about Romans 12:4-5 "For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another" I started to have a lot of thoughts in me, inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Often if not always, as we mingle around with people, we normally easily spot out areas or attitude in people's life that we don't like. Different ways of speaking and gestures, different ways of value and reasoning, different in personalities - are some elements that help us to conclude whether can we 'click' with so and so.
So Holy Spirit, being very courteous, dropped some thoughts into my mind. The thoughts are as below:
"Do you think that you, being tremendously loved by God, can love EVERYONE else? Literally EVERYONE?..." "How good is your own heart?"
- look around people around you, friends, housemates & church members
- so how many of them that similar to you and you like to relate with them?
- and how many of them that often irritate you or annoy you?
- AND NOW, think on behalf of the many people around you...
- how many of them like the way you talk, the way you reason, the way you smile & laugh and etc?
- how many of them don't like you, or you will irritate or annoy them in some ways?
Holy Spirit caused me to ponder for quite some time. And I learn something here.
We will forever never be perfect for one another even for the person that love you most. Just that the degree of imperfection varies from different persons and different situation and different days. So why do we need to waste so much emotional strength just to be carried away by the feeling of 'uneasy with so and so'? Why do we need to waste our brain cells by thinking the little action or attitude by another person that annoy us? All this mounts up to nothing but weariness in the soul and heart. What is the benefit? No benefit at all. Little did we know, the moment we are so annoyed by another person is also the same moment some other people are irritated by us.
Here, I learn the great lesson that to win is to love and forgive. Since, we are all so imperfect and so different, let us learn to love one another, as Christ loves us. We must treasure one another as though everyone is part of our body. Imagine this - one ulcer at your tongue actually hurts you a lot!
My strength may be some others' weakness. My weakness may be some other people's strength. So, i have a great beautiful picture, that as we blend together in love and unity, our strength will swallow up our weakness - this is beautiful.
Brothers & sisters in Christ, let us together have a big heart's capacity to love one another. But before that, learn more from God as God is love. When we love despite our strength & weakness, Satan will have no place to stand. His weapon is fear and hatred. So in the presence of love, Satan is confused and is drowning. Let us win together!
As we have God who loves us, we surely can love others =)
Bible verses:
Romans 13:10 Love does no harm to neighbour...
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
and many other more verses...
You may go to http://www.biblegateway.com/ to find verses about "love". You can also read about how we should treat one another from your Christian Living (Discipleship Program) under the chapter Fellowship Cell. God bless you :)
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