Love and forgiveness

​Hello everyone,

Today we’re going to talk about love and forgiveness and how important it is to understand it all while we’re on our journey.

The other day, I had mentioned how love is the core of keeping us all together. Well, it goes deeper than that because it helps us to grow, gives hope to the world and helps us to get to heaven. 

There are so many bible verses that explain love and in Corinthians 13:4-5, it talks about love is patient, kind, does not envy, not boast, not proud, doesn’t dishonor others, not self-seeking and not easily angered. That is just one that came to my mind and there are so many more.  When we love, we do it willingly, when we love, we don’t hold on to grudges when someone does us wrong and when we love, we want the best for others.  Love is never jealous and it’s simply giving of yourself without wanting nothing in return. 

There are so many people who need love and sometimes people get into a zone of doing things for so long that they don’t know how to get out of wrongdoing.  Sometimes people go through things that hurt them and they don’t know how to respond after painful situations and sometimes people just don’t know how to love.  I can go on and on, but the bottom line is people need love and when we love, we give hope, we prepare ourselves for great things and we allow God to work in our lives.  Love is really a sacrifice, and it helps the entire Body of Christ because when we do wrong to others and not love them, they in return may do that to others. WE DON’T WANT TO DAMAGE THE BODY OF CHRIST.  The goal is to be a disciple and change the world by showing everyone Jesus in us and allowing our light to shine.

It’s amazing how love can change our lives and the lives of others.  I can truly say if God didn’t love me, I don’t know where I would be today.  Love also gives us peace, joy and takes off stress from our lives.  Try loving by being humbled, seeing through God lenses to know that it’s not about us but about serving on our journey.

When we love, we also should show forgiveness.  If we’re not showing forgiveness, we’re not loving. I have to say that when we forgive, it helps the other person, but it mainly helps us (The one who forgives) because we’re showing God’s love and we’re doing what God asked us to do.  Also, when we forgive and love, we’re building The Body of Christ.  Forgiveness and love have so many benefits and it helps so many people.  Let’s think about it, God gave us a mission to be a disciple and to serve Him by helping others and giving hope to the world.  How can we do that without love and forgiveness?  God loves and forgives us so let’s love and forgive one another through our actions.

​Amen and Thank You Jesus