"Our job is to love others without stopping or inquiring whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business, and in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked is to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy."
-Thomas Merton
We often find it easy to say "I love you" to people we love that sometimes, these 3 words have lost its meaning. Plain and floating. Sometimes I wonder if we ever understand what love truly means.
In the Bible, the most beautiful definition of love was written:
"Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails."[1]
I once thought there are people who are just difficult to love but then later realized that loving, itself, is not easy enough.
I believe that beyond love being patient, kind and all that, God is love.[2]
All my life, God has been nothing but patient with me and there times when I ask myself, why isn't God even giving up on me? I have made the same mistakes over and over again. I have fallen and failed countless times. Still His love remains.
I admit I am quite possessive with people that means a lot to me that whenever I see other people getting closer to them, I fear that I might be forgotten, replaced. I often see myself that way. But I have also learned that I can never be anybody else but myself and people will love me for what I am and for what I am not. Same goes to you.
You don't need to please everybody because at the end of the day, everything will be between you and your God. It is Him whom you must please.
Love is never selfish. Loving is putting others' happiness before your own simply because their happiness becomes your source of happiness as well. And I wish it is as easy as that.
Love never fails because God never fails.
Remember that no amount of love will ever be enough if you don't feel the love of God in your heart. No amount of love can ever quench the love that our hearts are thirsting for. When everybody seems to give up on you, God never will.
If we keep up with a specific standard, I don't think anyone can ever be worthy of love. But God did not have any standards. He loves us just the way we are and He wants us to love the same way He does.
I believe I am blessed beyond measure because in my heart, I know God is there. I feel overwhelmed knowing that He has been there all these times. I feel unworthy, yes. But God sees me in a way that I can never see myself, in a way I am still learning to see myself. I have to love myself the way God loves me before I can love other people the way He does. I cannot give the love I do not have.
I don't think I am good at loving. I think I'm pretty much lousy at it. But I hope the people I love knows how much I truly do love them when I say I do. I may be bad in expressing it, somehow I try. I may be the most moody person there is, but one thing's for sure that no matter what mood I am in, I still love them.
Many times, it is easier to just give up on love. Most of the time, it is easier to just build walls higher and higher. But it makes no sense at all. Believe it or not, life is made up of love. Cliché but yes, love does not makes the world go round. It makes the ride worth while.
So please keep love in your heart. Hoard love. Stay in love. But more importantly, know that you are loved. Somebody just died on the cross for you. That's how special you are!✝
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