“For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? Do
not the publicans the same?” (Matthew 3:46)
Here is a scripture that I truly love, and yet I don’t think
the Lord wants us to be stupid about it. Yesterday I talked about some elements of Love
in a particular scripture verse. Two elements I didn’t talk about were respect
and acceptance. We can love a dysfunctional person without being co-dependent. The
first step is to follow the first and great commandment “Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind…
And the second is like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
(Matthew 22:37-39)
If we love other as God, who knows all things, loves them we
accept and respect them as a child of God even as we ourselves are. We also accept
that even as we ourselves have faults, we accept that others do as well. We probably
don’t know what happened to make an individual angry, violent, or mean spirited,
but we are not going to put ourselves in harms way. Neither am I (speaking only
for myself here) going to allow an individual’s rough exterior keep me from loving
them.
I just think it so sad when we allow a person’s low esteem to
keep us from caring about them.
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