Love The Unlovable

I am so thankful God chose to love all of us while we were "still sinners". Can you imagine how perfection anguished over some of the things we did? For me personally the early parts of my adult life were dominated by my selfish out of control desire to do more and more wrong.

Now that I am on the other side of it, that understanding of just how lost a person can be has helped me to love others so much better, including myself. But the challenge always remains to love those unlovable that only a God with unconditional love can understand. We try, but impatience can get in our way.

But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you , what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. Luke 6:32-36

It's tough to love those who hurt you, take advantage of you, who disrespect you, who seemingly disregard any level of manners or even our own children who turn their back on us. It is, but if we read the New Testament we see all these examples and how love may not always change them but it changes us drastically on the inside.

I read something this morning that compelled me to write this blog. In Luke 16:14 it says The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all this and were sneering at Jesus. I thought that even the incredible Jesus was mocked, hated and hung on a cross, but loved anyway. How should I be? I have been in the category of a pure sinner and a saved sinner, and I still have problems loving "everybody".

Only by humbling myself, looking at the example of Jesus and forgetting about the cares of my life that change my moods can I truly love the unlovable. Not an easy thing to do, but one he challenges us to master.

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