I want to love impartially.
I want to love those who are hard to love.
I want to love in a way that doesn’t glorify me, but points only to God.
I want to love people where they are.
I want to love the weak and the strong, the smart and the dumb, the loud and the quiet, the peacemaker and the trouble stirrer, my friends and my enemies, my family and strangers.
For so long my biggest struggle has been how I love people—how I need to be more God-centered and less me-centered. I don’t want to ration out my love, and give it only to those who “deserve” it. I want to love how Christ loves me—with a pure heart.
I want to love with a love that does not come from myself.
I want to love with patience and kindness, humility and contentment, and with selfless ambition.
Simply put I want to love like Jesus, because that is the only type of love that bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
He must increase, but I must decrease—John 3:30
