Love more

We need to love more. This isn't about loving your friends and family more(but we should) , or loving the weak and "least of these" more(but we should). It's not even about loving our enemies more.

Is there someone at your work that you just can't stand? They think they are always right, and never have anything good to say about anyone or anything. Or maybe they get along with others but they don't like you.

Maybe there is a friend or acquaintance that has everything always go their way, and they flaunt it in front of everyone else. Or someone at church that you feel in self-centered, or who just rubs you the wrong way.

We have forgotten, in society and in the church, what empathy is. We forget to put ourselves in someone else's shoes, to maybe look at them how God must look at them.....and at us.

When God says love your neighbor as yourself, he means the neighbor you fight with about noise and property lines; not just the ones you barbecue with. He says in His Word that anyone can love those who love them. We need to love the ones that might not be so lovable.

Spread some love this week. Spread it to someone who doesn't like you; or someone you don't like. A person at work, or at church, or that mean clerk at the store. And don't forget to love your family and the downcast more too.