I find myself pray the same prayer almost everyday. "Lord gives me love for those I find difficult to love."
Love does not come easy for me. Nor does trusting.
Where once I was a closed book, full of secrets and Buried hurt.
The Lord has really helped me grow these past years. He has shown me how to love others as well as how to accept others to love me.
Yet there are those moments where God shows me that love is still not always effortless.
These past few weeks has been extremely hard to love the people closest to me.
I can not help but to feel a test of my morality and my character.
I will confess I do not always show grace and kindness to those who irritate me. What really hurts the most is when I show love to others and in return I am treated wrong. I then consider the commandment "thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself."
So my prayer for tonight is
"Lord show me how to love those I do not want to love. Help me to know when to step back but also when to push forward. Help me to walk in your grace and not in my own ambitions."
He is the ultimate lover and the one who teaches us to love unconditionally.
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