February 7
Some misguided souls use love as a weapon. They employ their arsenal against those who care most about them. The spouse who betrays the one he’s promised ‘to have and to hold from this day forward,’ dismisses that vow and tramples the integrity of his commitment under his wandering feet.
The child who knows his adoring parents will do anything for him, will pay the bill for his every need to be supplied and his every desire to be fulfilled abuses their love by his consumption of their generosity upon indulgences that do not bring joy to the hearts of his kind, undemanding parents.
These abuses of the wonderful ability to love and be loved result from our misunderstanding of what love really is. If we grasp what it is not—the supply of every whim of the object of our affection by every means available to us—we will be far better able to extend to those within our sphere of influence the heaven-sent commodity that love is intended by God to be.
In Matthew 5:44-45, Jesus said, “I tell you to love your enemies and to pray for those who persecute you so you may be sons of your Father in heaven, for He causes His sun to shine on the just and on the unjust and He sends His rain upon the righteous and the unrighteous.” He is telling us that in order to be like our heavenly Father, we must be kind and just and loving—without discrimination—even to those who oppose us.
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