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In love, not all persons are reciprocated with the love they have prepared to giveto a significant other. There are times when we may end up falling in love forsomeone who doesnt feel the same way towards us.

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This kind of love may seem unfair, not worth investing our time in, andmeaningless by the mere fact that the person we are so in love with doesnt feel

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the same way as we do.When these thought go through your mind, you fail to realize that this love maygrow into something more than the instantly returned, I feel the same way for

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you, kind of love. When we are certain that this person is truly deserving of a

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love that does not ask for anything in return, it means that this love we areholding within is something unique. It is called unrequited love.The beauty of this kind of love is that it is the most deserving of gratitude andappreciation and luckily, it is possible that it doesnt end in just that. It may,

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after a wearisome wait, be reciprocated.When we have established for ourselves that the other person is worth waiting andworking hard to be with, we have to remain patient and hope that the counterpartour heart has chosen might someday notice our love and realize that there issomeone around him(or her) who is waiting and worth giving a shot at loving.We value things we work hard for more compared to the things that are within ourreach. Unrequited love, believe me, its worth giving.

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Excellent! The writer here has captured the true essence of love in just 6paragraphs. True love just does not have any expectations, be it love for god,love for parents, romantic love or any other form of love. I myself am in lovewith a girl for the last 6 years (infact I would complete 6 years on Sep, 15) butshe does not love me although she treats me her best friend. She is in love withsomeone else and among all her friends she has told this only to me. She knowsabout my feelings but still we are comfortable with each other. Everyday I pray togod for their union and I pray that in each of my lives, may I love only her butin each of those lives may she belong only to him. Achieving her is not central tothe fulfillment of my love but her happiness is. Love actually makes you a goodhuman being.Didnt Gods love change you? Werent you, like the prisoner, blind? You couldnt

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see beyond the grave. You couldnt see your purpose in life until he showed you.

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And you couldnt hear either. Youd never heard of such love and kindness, and you

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never would have heard of it, but God spoke in your language. And, most of all, heset you free. You are free! Free to run away. Free to harden your heart. But youdont. Or if you do, you come back. Why?

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Because youve never been loved like this before.

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Love Them Like JesusThis is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.

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John 15:12 NASB Love one another. Jesus is very clear about how we are to treat other Christians.On the surface, loving those with whom we choose to serve God with seems prettyeasy. However, there is much more to Jesus meaning of love. Jesus tells us to

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love our fellow Christians in the way that He loved usand he died for us.

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Dying for a child or spouse might not seem like that big of a stretch to some ofus, but dying for a Christian is another story. How much should we give ofourselves to a fellow Christian? What does this agape love look like in practice?How do we love others as Jesus did? All of this provided some great discussion inmy Sunday school class this morning. Im still thinking about it.

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The apostle Paul gives us some good examples of what love looks like in life in 1Corinthians 13. This is quite a checklist and is more than a pretty poem to beread at weddings. As you read the following, consider how well you love thosearound you.Love

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is patientis kindis not jealousdoes not bragis not arrogantdoes not act unbecominglydoes not seek its ownis not provokeddoes not take into account a wrong suffereddoes not rejoice in unrighteousnessrejoices with the truthLove

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bears all thingsbelieves all thingshopes all thingsendures all thingsLove never fails.When I compare how I love others to how God says we should, I realize that I failmiserably much of the time because my selfishness gets in the way. Plain andsimple, love is hard. Fortunately, love never fails either. Gods love for us as

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well as His Holy Spirit inside of us enables us to love others. Our love forothers can eventually right any wrong. Commit to love better today. Ask God toempower you. God never fails.For further thought:1) How well do you love the fellow believers God has placed in your life?2) From the checklist in 1 Corinthians 13, what is your biggest challenge?

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3) What baby step will you take today to love others as Jesus commands?Love on my mind

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My heart is weighing heavy on me this morning as I pray for some friend. Mymeditation today was on two passages of scripture.whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart

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from me you can do nothing. John 15:5 (ESV)

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Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

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Love never fails 1 Corinthians 13:7-8 (ESV)

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I am concerned about the church and her love walk. Much of our church activity isbased on (if we get honest with ourselves) self-love. It has more to do with whatI want and what is in it for me. People love, but with conditions. They

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serve, til its something they dont want to do or as long as they have control of

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what they are doing or others do what they want. People love as long as they aregetting something they want in return.Before you get bothered about me expecting too much from young or new believers,please understand. The concerns I have are about those who call themselves maturedisciples. These are leaders and people who have walked with Jesus a long time.Remember, Jesus had problems with religious people.Now, in John 15 there are several things Paul said we should be abiding in and oneof those was love. I John 4:8 tell us that God is love. So if we are abiding

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in Him and in love we should be bearing fruit - the fruit of love. This is notthe kind of love that we see even on the worlds best day. Its a love on a much

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higher level. God is our standard for love. This love is so hard that we cannotdo it without Gods help. If we dont abide in Him, we cannot love. If we dont

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love, we are not abiding in Him.We have all been abandoned by what we thought was love with people. This is whylove was meant to be first received from God and then given away. If we look forthe love of people to satisfy us before finding our security in Gods love first,

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we will be left wanting and hurting or become unstable and abusive in ourrelationships.How should we love?Love bears all things. The Greek translation for bear means to roof over or

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cover in silence, to endure patiently. I doesnt mean you can maul people to

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death or act like a bear. It also doesnt mean developing a callous heart but

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rather a covering of grace. No matter what comes against you love still remains.It covers over any situation with love and does so with no expectation for selfwithout saying anything or justifying yourself.Love believes all things. This does not mean that we believe everything we hearabout people or situations. But, it means believing the best about people andsituations. Our love is not dependant on what we know about people or thing butrather on God himself. Because He is love, we believe all things about Him andtherefore respond in love to all things. If we truly know God we have no choicebut to always respond in love to people. See what I mean by this being impossiblewithout Him. Its a higher love.

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Love hopes all things. Hope here means to expect and trust with confidence andpleasure. This is not an expectation from people but from God as it relates topeople and things. It means we love with an expectation and trust in God that allthings are going to be according to His will and purpose. The hope is in Him sowe are to freely give all our love to people even when they are not doing what wethink they ought to do. Dependency on Jesus frees us to fully love.Love endures all things. This means love is behind and under all things. Itsuffers all things. Gods love can handle anything. It has no limits.

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