Must you love everyone?

If you really love it you’ll give to it, LIES! If you give to it you’ll really love it!

Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be.
Matthew 6:21 NLT

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:21 NKJV

If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained NOTHING.

Love IS patient and kind.
Love is NOT jealous or boastful or proud or rude.
It does NOT demand its own way.
It is NOT irritable, and it keeps NO record of being wronged.
It does NOT rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
Love NEVER gives up, NEVER loses faith,
is ALWAYS hopeful, and endures through EVERY circumstance.
1 Corinthians 13:3‭-‬7 NLT

Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13 NLT

But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
1 John 4:8 NLT

And do everything with love.
1 Corinthians 16:14 NLT

“If you love only those who love you, why should you get credit for that? Even sinners love those who love them! And if you do good only to those who do good to you, why should you get credit? Even sinners do that much! And if you lend money only to those who can repay you, why should you get credit? Even sinners will lend to other sinners for a full return. “Love your enemies! Do good to them. Lend to them without expecting to be repaid. Then your reward from heaven will be very great, and you will truly be acting as children of the Most High, for he is kind to those who are unthankful and wicked. You must be compassionate, just as your Father is compassionate.
Luke 6:32‭-‬36 NLT

 

The bible is so clear about loving others. GOD NEVER SAYS LOVE ONLY THOSE WHO LOVE YOU. He instead shows us how he sent his son, his baby boy to die for a bunch of people who wanted him dead! He sent Jesus to be the living sacrifice so we no longer have to sacrifice animals (which half the time weren’t good enough offerings and the people would die immediately) in order to repent and be cleansed.

We are made right through Jesus that right there my friend is true love.

Nowadays people give up so quickly on loving people. And close themselves off to their spouse, their friends, their family… they isolate themselves.

That is NOT God’s desire for you.

His desire is that you forgive quickly and that you love deeply. It’s not easy. Let me tell you, it is NOT easy.

But its required of us to live these lives that God has gifted us with. Sometimes you have to forgive 70 times a day or 70×7 times a day. Forgiveness is so much more for yourself then for the other person. Living with unforgivness will in fact grow your heart cold and bitter and far from God. God will never stop loving you. The bible is clear about how there is Nothing that separates us from his Love. However we can sure grow apart from God because of our choosing to live in unforgiveness and bitterness.

 

Ask God to examine your heart today. Pray and worship your Lord. He will show you areas in your heart you need to forgive and show grace and love.

God showed us grace through Jesus.

We MUST show grace to people.