Love is really something you know? I spend a lot of time making sure I'm acting in it according to God's definition and I think it's simple, but not easy. God shows us love in so many ways. Every day He gives us the blessing of life and supplies our most urgent and least urgent needs. He literally died for us, even when He wanted to let the cup pass. He was not concerned with His own comfort as much as He is committed to our betterment, comfort, and joy. He is constantly giving and all He desires is for the feelings to be mutual.
God being God can ask so much of us but what should we expect from one another concerning being loved and loving? Corinthians 13 says that loves seeks not its own. I propose that love has to be less about self and more about other. The less of myself I am concerned with the more I am acting in love. I must direct my thoughts and desires towards another's betterment. I have to deny my self all the pleasure of abusing people and their kindness and put on a cloak of humility, get on my hands and knees and do the part of a servant. That's love.
However, self-less living is HARD! My self wants to keep my new stuff just for my personal use (especially while it is new). My self wants my family and friends to go the extra mile to make me comfortable and happy; it doesn't want to work for that or even say thank you. My self couldn't care less about what will make someone else better. "If they have to fall in sin to make me happy, so be it," says self. And, this mindset is natural, which means we have to have supernatural power working for us and we have to spend countless hours practicing the correct behavior.
The bottom line is that love has to hurt sometimes. It has to choose to hurt. It has to choose to hurt so that someone else wont hurt. It has to change concern for self into concern for other with similar passion as the concern was for self. It has to become easy to share where it was easy to be selfish. I have to be prone to sacrifice. PRONE TO SACRIFICE.
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