Loving the Unlovely

It's hard to love people who hurt you intentionally. Hard to serve them. Hard to fight the good fight and not the BAD fight. My flesh cries out to fight the bad fight and hurt them back, either actively or passively. But this is not the way of Jesus. He has died for her. He has loved her. He has yearned for her.

So I know that God asks me to love her also. He asks me this not only because He loves her but because He loves ME. He knows that the fullness of JOY for ME is in following Him. He will meet me on the other side.

God, if obeying you is what enables me to KNOW YOU MORE, then there is nowhere else I want to be.

Loving the unlovely brings me to the place of knowing You more.