I’ve been on a journey—A journey of learning to love the unlovely.
Truly loving people can be seriously difficult sometimes, especially when you try to do it in your own strength or when the people in question are not the easiest ones to love. Letting Jesus love people through you is a whole different story, though, because He is Love. Pure love.
While on my journey, there has been one simple phrase that has transformed my perspective on loving others. Thanks to my darling husband, I often get reminded of this phrase while complaining, getting suspicious, or despairing over people. I am reminded that “love hopes for the best”.
What an inspiring thought. “Love hopes for the best”. Love doesn’t think the worst about people, it doesn’t get suspicious, it doesn’t plan for the very worst outcome, and it certainly doesn’t throw away any chance at a change in a person’s character.
Love hopes for the best.
Imagine what our world would look like if we all just started to hope for the best in people. Imagine if each and every person was encouraged and inspired, rather than criticized and demeaned. What would our cities be like if hope and love were spread over them like a salve to the soul? I really do think we would see some changes. It all has to start somewhere, with someone, and that person is me (ahem, and you, too).
..Let us stop just saying we love each other; let us really show it by our actions
1 John 3:18
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