The Nature of Love

 Mark 12:30-31 "And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. 31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Love is not a discipline, a rule or a law.  It simply is!  Day by day we go through the same routines and the same events with the same people we don't really respect or love as we ought to.  Then every Sunday we sit in church and learn about love and how we should love those around us.  As humans do we first go through the guilt feeling cycle and then we proclaim to make an effort in the week to come to love those around us... as soon as Monday strikes we try it  couple of times and after failure we simply give up thee ambition.

Firstly we need to understand that as human being you cannot love the way we should love so clearly the answer does not lie with us trying!  This is about something greater.  To start off we need to change our attitudes towards love.  Jesus said to love your neighbor.  Once we hear that our immediate question is "who is my neighbor?"  In effect we actually asking... who can I skip in this loving campaign.  We need to love ALL those around us and not just some, so stop trying to eliminate those you don't have to love, get over the fact that you need to love every single person and once you changed your attitude you leave room for God to work.

Once we fill ourselves up with God, when there is no more us but Christ... then love comes naturally because it becomes our nature to love just as it is His nature to love.  So keep your thoughts, actions, conversations and focus on God.  Spend time with Him in prayer and studying His word.  Let His thoughts and desires become your thoughts and desires.  Then we can truly love those around us without question.