Love The Unlovable

[heartnsoul]

We have all heard people coin the phrases “love is the answer, love conquers all”. When people are being loving towards us, it is so easy to reciprocate that love back to them. However, when people are not being loving towards us, how do we react? How do we love the “unlovable”?

As Christians, if we have the wisdom that the unbelievers will suffer their own consequences someday (if not already now), then how much more do we need to show them compassion, mercy and love? For those of us that have tried to do it on our own, fell to our knees, became humbled, and personally experienced the beauty and power of our loving God, don’t we already know and feel the depth of pain of those who do not know God? Let the "lost" serve as a constant reminder to us all that their existence is somewhat meaningless without God in their lives. If we stop and think about how we finally came to truly know God ourselves, wasn't it precisely that LOVE that finally won us over? For me, the answer is "yes". It was God who showed His love and mercy for me at the lowest moment in my life. He showered me with blessings and angels to let me know He is with me, loves me and will never leave me.

For that reason alone, I have the commitment to love God with all of my heart and choose to love others for He has loved me first. Once we have walked with God for a long while, sometimes we unknowingly forget how our relationship first began. It began by His LOVE for us when we were once the “unlovable”.

Dear God,


Thank you for loving us first…for it is your great love and mercy that taught us how to love. May your love inspire us to love even the “unlovable”.


In Jesus’ Name We Pray,
Amen

 

[caitlincares]

Great post.

Yes, we are to love others as He has loved us.

 

[sheep in wolves clothing]

Many years before I came to the Lord, I was in the process of divorce. I sinned against God and my wife. As the divorce process continued I realized exactly what I had lost. I came back to the Lord and asked for help in healing my marrage. Of course that is when we always need God is when we break our lives and expect Him to put it back together.

After much prayer and counseling, God told me to do something for Him. He asked me to give the relationship to Him. I did. He told me to go to the church where my wife and I were married and place my wedding ring there upon the altar and leave it.
I can tell you it was the most intense pain I have ever felt and the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. I did it anyway.

God then asked me to do something else for Him. He asked me to love my wife like He loved me. I was unsure exactly what that meant at the time, but I soon found out. God wanted me to love her unconditionally.

Unconditionally... did you get that? Unconditionally... without retaliation, without regret, without thought. Love her as He loved me. I did.

For two years I did this for God and I was never closer to Him. I cried myself to sleep almost every single night knowing that she was seeing other people and here I was just loving her... unconditionally. I can attest to the strength of God when we submit to Him and follow Him for it was by His strength that I accomplished this because I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that God carried me through that painful, yet revealing time.

The divorce eventually went through and I questioned God about it. He closed my mouth and bent my knee to Him when in prayer He revealed to me that He had been loving me all of my life that way. What a revelation that was.

He loved me when I cursed Him.
He loved me when I ran from Him.
He loved me when I placed everything else before Him.
He loved me when I was broken and alone thinking of suicide.
He still loves me unconditionally.
He will love me unconditionally forever.

My ex-wife and her husband and my wife and I are all christians now. God used me to love the unlovable, to really love as He loves and He has shown me a greater depth of His love that works in us everyday if we let it.

To love the unlovable is possible through Him. He gives the power and the strength to accomplish it through us. We are His tools to love the unlovable. Submission and obedience will allow God to use us to love more that we ever thought possible.


Love,


A Sheep in Wolves Clothing



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To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent.
O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.
Ps.30:12

 

[heartnsoul]

Many years before I came to the Lord, I was in the process of divorce. I sinned against God and my wife. As the divorce process continued I realized exactly what I had lost. I came back to the Lord and asked for help in healing my marrage. Of course that is when we always need God is when we break our lives and expect Him to put it back together.

After much prayer and counseling, God told me to do something for Him. He asked me to give the relationship to Him. I did. He told me to go to the church where my wife and I were married and place my wedding ring there upon the altar and leave it.
I can tell you it was the most intense pain I have ever felt and the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. I did it anyway.

God then asked me to do something else for Him. He asked me to love my wife like He loved me. I was unsure exactly what that meant at the time, but I soon found out. God wanted me to love her unconditionally.

Unconditionally... did you get that? Unconditionally... without retaliation, without regret, without thought. Love her as He loved me. I did.

For two years I did this for God and I was never closer to Him. I cried myself to sleep almost every single night knowing that she was seeing other people and here I was just loving her... unconditionally. I can attest to the strength of God when we submit to Him and follow Him for it was by His strength that I accomplished this because I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that God carried me through that painful, yet revealing time.

The divorce eventually went through and I questioned God about it. He closed my mouth and bent my knee to Him when in prayer He revealed to me that He had been loving me all of my life that way. What a revelation that was.

He loved me when I cursed Him.
He loved me when I ran from Him.
He loved me when I placed everything else before Him.
He loved me when I was broken and alone thinking of suicide.
He still loves me unconditionally.
He will love me unconditionally forever.

My ex-wife and her husband and my wife and I are all christians now. God used me to love the unlovable, to really love as He loves and He has shown me a greater depth of His love that works in us everyday if we let it.

To love the unlovable is possible through Him. He gives the power and the strength to accomplish it through us. We are His tools to love the unlovable. Submission and obedience will allow God to use us to love more that we ever thought possible.

Love,
A Sheep in Wolves Clothing

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To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent.
O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.
Ps.30:12

Amen brother! What a powerful testimony. Thank you for sharing your testimony with us. God bless you.

 

[C.A.B.L]

Great thread! Christ loved even those who hung Him on the cross. He loved even those who cursed him. It's easy to love the "loveables" but it takes real strength to love those who don't love us.

 

[vinc]

Amen to that Heartnsoul .... "We love Him, because He first loved us" (1 John 4:19).