God’s love to others

[danemiller]

Lately, I’ve been reflecting on what it truly means to show God’s love to others. In a world filled with division and pain, I know we’re called to be a light. But at times, I struggle with how to make that love real, especially when people are hurting or seem distant. How do you approach this? What are some ways we can genuinely reflect God’s love in our daily interactions?

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

Lately, I’ve been reflecting on what it truly means to show God’s love to others. In a world filled with division and pain, I know we’re called to be a light. But at times, I struggle with how to make that love real, especially when people are hurting or seem distant. How do you approach this? What are some ways we can genuinely reflect God’s love in our daily interactions?

In my life it was always the Catholics who best represented Gods light …now much of that was realized by them being kind and compassionate while carrying their own cross while showing Gods love for anyone in need. Of course, in those days it was a close knit community, primarily working class people who scratched out livings in mines, factories, shops, the trades. I have never seen a very rich person ever EVER do an act of kindness for a poor working individual .

But I digress, the people who care make their presence known…we had a neighbor woman who visited us frequently…she also had brain cancer but she had a smile I will never forget. She was a puller to helping my mom cope with her many life’s challenges. My Godmother could never have kids and then the adoption homes wouldn’t allow her to adopt cause her FIL was a. Criminal so she was very kind to us kids….made me breakfasts when I stayed over…A saint of a woman. Your gettin the idea right. Little acts of kindness go along way.

 

[Cathode]

Lately, I’ve been reflecting on what it truly means to show God’s love to others. In a world filled with division and pain, I know we’re called to be a light. But at times, I struggle with how to make that love real, especially when people are hurting or seem distant. How do you approach this? What are some ways we can genuinely reflect God’s love in our daily interactions?

Unless we ask for the Graces from Jesus each day to be more loving, we aren’t going to do much.
Spending time with Jesus in meditation on His Life, and asking Him to recreate His Life in you.
Jesus has to be your first love above all else, the first thought of the day and last thought at night.
Prayer is your relationship with Jesus, no prayer, no relationship. It’s the same with all relationships, there must be constant communication.

Are you truly communicating with Jesus each day?

Jesus makes love real, and because of Him others will be drawn to you, and you will be drawn to others.

An ecosystem of Love always forms around those living in Jesus Presence.

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

Lately, I’ve been reflecting on what it truly means to show God’s love to others. In a world filled with division and pain, I know we’re called to be a light. But at times, I struggle with how to make that love real, especially when people are hurting or seem distant. How do you approach this? What are some ways we can genuinely reflect God’s love in our daily interactions?

I sometimes watch this guy on a podcast named Rocky. He goes to rescue sights for pets and sits with dogs and cats that are mostly shutting down, are scared etc. I’m amazed at how by a little, love and attention revives these animals…same with people. My mom was worn down by life, her first born daughter at 2 yo was given a vaccination that destroyed her brain stem. My father and her husband died at 39 yo leaving the family destitute and her alone without her partner. Many trials…thank God we had the presence of people being there to talk with, learn from, pray with….you know emphatic people with hearts & compassion.

So from my standpoint, that should be your mission….be that Christ, be that compassionate soul…do little things to make those around you see their lives as worthy to keep on going.

 

[Cathode]

There are many people that have never experienced real Love in their lives. Someone who takes up their cause, not wanting anything in return but to see them happy. Someone who will share their lunch and share their life happily.

Share your life with people as Jesus shared His Life out for all. People will be drawn to you, they will see Jesus in you at a soulular level.

Many are very suspicious of Love, you can see them trying to calculate an angle, till one day they realise you have no angle, it’s just who you are in Jesus.

Strangely there will be disciples gather around you, as your life is lived out by Jesus. People of every background you can’t imagine. These are all sent by The Father who directs all things and circumstances.

People come alive with Love, it’s an amazing thing. I remember a girl who had joined our crew as a sampler. She had been working for us for a couple of weeks and I had trained her up and helped her fit in with every one.
One night whilst we were all cheerfully nattering around the campfire, she stood up in front of everyone and told me she loved me, it was something that was deeply heartfelt and she had tears running down her face.
She said she had never felt like she belonged and never was part of a family until now.
Declaring love is not something to be embarrassed about, but something to celebrate like finding something lost. And we all did celebrate it.
The world is starving for Love and belonging, but it is also starving to express love.
As people starve to be in a place reverence, they starve more to be reverent as a function of their inner being before God. Finally fulfilling the purpose of their existence from all Eternity. In this we have life to the full.

Jesus will lead you on many adventures throughout your life, but the journey starts with self denial. He must increase and self must decrease, then a new and wonderful life begins.

 

[robertpattison]

Hey mate, I get where you’re coming from it’s tough to figure out how to show God’s love when the world feels so divided. I’ve been there too, and it took some wake-up call for me to see my actions weren't lining up. Talking it out with my uncle helped a ton, he pointed me to stuff like really listening to people, being patient even when it’s hard, and doing small acts of kindness consistently. He also share some books and blogs that got me thinking. I don't have all those resources handy now, but I've got one blog bookmarked that might vibe with me what you're reflecting on, so i'll share that with you. Hope it helps!
A Guide to Sharing the Love of God | How to Show God's Love

 

[Tenchi]

Lately, I’ve been reflecting on what it truly means to show God’s love to others. In a world filled with division and pain, I know we’re called to be a light. But at times, I struggle with how to make that love real, especially when people are hurting or seem distant. How do you approach this? What are some ways we can genuinely reflect God’s love in our daily interactions?

It helps me in figuring out how best to love others to understand well what agape love is: a deep, over-riding desire for intimate communion with God. This is what the Triune Godhead enjoyed within itself prior to Creation and it is what God offers to us through Christ.

The Psalmist describes this deep desire - this love - of and for God.

Psalm 84:2
2 My soul longed and even yearned for the courts of the LORD; My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.

Psalm 63:1
1 O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, In a dry and weary land where there is no water.

Psalm 42:1-2
1 As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants for You, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God...

There is something of this great longing, this love, for God in Paul's words in his letter to the Philippians:

Philippians 3:7-8
7 But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
8 More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ,

When God commands me in His word to love my neighbor (Matt. 22:39), I understand this to mean, first and foremost, that they would come to enjoy God's best for them, which is daily, holy, life-changing, communion with Himself (2 Cor. 13:14; 1 Jn. 1:3b; Rev. 3:20; Ps. 36:7-9). I love my neighbor as I desire this for them and act to bring about their own, personal, ever-deepening experience of God, though it may cost me severely to do so. For my non-believing neighbor, this means I do all I can to see them born-again (evangelism); for my saved neighbor, this means I do all I can to help them move deeper and deeper into joyful, loving, faithful, holy fellowship with their Maker (i.e discipleship).

Often, evangelism and discipleship - God's two great mandates to the Church (Matt. 28:19-20) - are marginalized by lesser goods like feeding clothing, sheltering, physically healing, and educating the lost. What the lost most need, however, is spiritual and eternal, not material and temporal. I show no truly godly love to the lost, then, by just making them physically comfortable on their way to hell. In fact, if doing so relieves them of a need for God, I have done them great evil. Agape love always works to move a person into communion with God and if it doesn't, it isn't agape love.

This isn't to say that Christians ought not to show kindness and generosity toward others - they certainly should - but that God's priority for the lost isn't their material/temporal well-being but their eternal, spiritual well-being which is found only in fellowship with Himself.