It's easy to love those who love you in return. Love finds it hard to survive when not reciprocated. Sometimes it is not that easy to love the unlovely, the arrogant ones, those to irritate you or are rude to you. We tend to ignore them. We confuse loving with liking. To be frank there are some people I don't like, but our Lord still wants me to love them. Not easy is it? Certainly not easy! Really, loving them means wishing the best for them, that no harm will come to them, that they will have a closer relationship with God, or if they don't know Him come to know and accept Him. Finally we shall end up at the same place heaven where we shall enjoy unending fellowship with each other and with our Lord.
So I pray for "a love like Thine, a love Divine." I've got a long way to go, but I keep trying by the grace of God.
C S Lewis penned these powerful words about love. "To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round your hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe. It will not be broken; it will be unbreakable, impenetrable and irredeemable."
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