"A new command I give you:
Love one another. As I have loved you,
so you must love one another."
John 13:34
There are countless verses in the New Testament telling us as believers to love one other. But what does it really mean to love one another. This is something I have really been learning about this year. One of the great things about living in dorm is the community, but sometimes it is really hard seeing the same people all the time. Sometimes there are people I just don’t want to love. There are times that someone has unintentionally hurt me in some way and the last thing I want to do is show them love. I have learned that love is a choice. Love isn’t just a feeling you feel towards certain people. There is always going to be some people that you just naturally click with and are easy for you to love. But God doesn’t call us just to love these people. God has called us to love everyone this even means those who may have hurt you. Even on the days when you don’t feel any love towards a person it is so important to show love towards them.
I’ve been thinking about this for awhile. I’ve realized that keeping this in mind as actually made things easier. Before I really started thinking about how love is a choice there would be days when I just didn’t feel like being loving. But now I have realized that loving one another isn’t showing your feelings at that particular moment it is about making a choice to love that person each day.
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