Loving as a Progenitor

People are different and when people are found to be similar they are easier to relate to. When it seems someone is prioritizing you then it feels safe, even natural, to prioritize them. When it comes to relationships someone has to make the first move. Often it seems at if no one did. It happens that family, for example, just naturally prefers one another. This preference follows many other lines such as hobbies, similar ownership, personal habits, and even shared experiences. I think about summer camps making friends for life out of people from different backgrounds. The bottom line is, people find a reason to love those who love them but the Bible actually calls us to love unrequited. Be an originator with no better reason than that God has authored it. A few verses later, He reminds us that that is how God did it for us. God not only loved us when we hardly knew Him but when we were living opposed to Him. Following His example is accomplished when we choose to love as a first response and without reservation. Moreover, the more we love, the more we become who the word says we area in Christ. Sinners stumble on right activities but do it for the wrong, even completely logical reasons. We most adopt this alternative: Love others though they may not know you or even care about you. Then, and only then do we have something, a trait, an identity, a huge blessing, a grand victory, a powerful light to be shined, a notable internal change, and more to be His people. In the extreme, this means loving our enemies. In it's genesis we find our new reality. 

Matthew 5:46 NASB1995

[46] For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.5.46.NASB1995

Pastor Daniel Stevenson Southside Life Station-Director
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