Overwhelming Love!

I learned about the Puritans this week and was interested with their first core belief about grace. According to them, it is a miracle that God grants some people the ability to truly love. And indeed I was reminded that it is only by the great love of God that every people can render a genuine love to the people around them.

One of my realizations here in BTC is that it is indeed hard to love other people without any sense of selfish motives from deep within me. And what's more is that Christ had told us to love those that we do not like and those that who doesn't like us. And I am aware that with my own strength I am really sure that I cannot do this. One thing that really kept me thinking about this issue is that as a minister of Christ I should love the people whom I am ministering to in order to be able to minister to them effectively. I admit that many times before I have realized this I was not really focus on people while I am having weekend ministry. Instead I was more focus on the idea of doing the responsibilities that I have. Because of these convictions I was really into praying for a heart full of love for these people and God had opened my eyes that it is only through His love that I can also love other people truly. And I also realized that this is indeed possible because God's love for me is very much overwhelming that it cannot be contained. That is why when people are fully satisfied with the love of God for them then the overflowing of God's love from their heart to other people is very much expected to happen. Every man has his own cravings and longings for love and the love that we are looking for is unconditional love. A love that would accept us wholly and joyfully even with the failures and imperfections that we have. And guess what no one can satisfy this longing of us but our Christ alone. He is the only one who is able to love us. But what is amazing is that He has grant us, believers, to be a vessels of His love to other people who are craving for it. And it is a challenge for me or us to always satisfy and soak ourselves with His love in order for the people that surround us to be blessed by us and will glorify our God who is loving us always and forever.