...all about caring love...

I reflected on love yesterday, and today I wish to make another observation about love, and that is that fidelity in love is our responsibility.  It is difficult to love this way because of our sinful nature.  We all struggle with competing loves, a struggle that is overcome only genuine deliberate love and care for others.  The people we live with, the people we work with, the people God brings into our lives we must care for, or fidelity in love escapes us.  Our friends need our attention and care more than others in their lives.  This care is what makes friends.  The same applies to strangers.   We must take deliberate and intentional steps to love and care for the strangers who come into our lives unexpectedly.  Care for others — all others — is the key to fidelity in love.  This means we must forgive those who have hurt us, especially those who have hurt us the most.  They may no longer be our friends but we must forgive them.  After all, God forgives us all the time when we show Him our worst.   Our life depends on this truth, and so we must remember that the love and care and forgiveness of God comes to us on its way to others.   Pray that you can have fidelity in your love.

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God have mercy on me a sinner.

From the Bible:

“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous” Hebrews 13:4.

“Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things”

1 Corinthians 13: 4-7.

“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends”

John 15:13.

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law” Galatians 5:22-23.