If we really love
others we are doing something that is risky and vulnerable.
I know that comment
seems cynical. I don’t intend for it to
be taken that way. I’m simply expressing
a reality of life. There are risks and
vulnerabilities involved in loving others because people are imperfect. Sometimes we hurt each other. Sometimes we irritate each other. Sometimes
we misunderstand each other. Sometimes
we do things that make others genuinely angry.
More painful still, sometimes we extend love and it is not returned.
Followers of Jesus
are called to go ahead and love others, despite the risk and
vulnerability. In fact, it’s strange to
think that the most perfectly loving person who ever lived was executed.
“Therefore, as God’s
chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion,
kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and
forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as
the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds
them all together in perfect unity.”
Colossians 3:12-14
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