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Love.
Today I got an email, you know the ones, full of optimistic positivity focussing on love of self and disregarding all else. Here is a portion of it.
Life is too short to wake up with regrets.
Love the people who treat you right.
Forget about the ones who don’t.
Believe everything happens for a reason.
If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands.
If it changes your life, let it.
Nobody said life would be easy.
They just promised it would be worth it.Most of it is very wrong thinking (does not line up with God’s Word) but what struck me the most was the phrase -
“Love the people who treat you right. Forget about the ones who don’t.”My thoughts immediately was, who will love the unlovable ones.You know the ones who don’t treat anyone right. The ones who everyone has abandoned.
The very next line in this flawed poem says “if you get a second chance grab it with both hands”. What about offering a second (or third or 490th) chance to someone who oh-so-doesn’t deserve it?
Because you don’t either. We are all human.
We all breathe the same air, bleed the same colour and return to the dust when we die.
We are all sinners and no one deserves a second chance. That’s where God’s grace comes swooping in. He saves us from our flaws and sins and unlovableness. He loves us unconditionally, expecting NOTHING in return.
He commanded us to love one another, not only those who treat us right. He died for all, not just those who have ticked the right boxes of some weird popularity contest.
We need to love each other, even the unlovable.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 1Corinthians 13:4-5
I pray that God lets those who listen, hear and those who look, see.