What Does Love Look Like To You?

Have you ever stopped to think about how love looks to you? How would you describe true love? Is it an emotional feeling, or expression of gifts? Unfortunately for most people of this day and time, they fall in and out of love as easily and quickly as they shower or change clothes. What happened to the love that lasts through the trial and tribulations and circumstances of life. Who desires to be in it for the long haul or is that now a thing of the past? At the very sign of someone disagreeing with how you feel or think, do you immediately loose some of your love or respect for them? The Bible tells us that love suffers long, it is kind, patient, sees no wrong, quick to forgive, believes all things, hopes all things. (I did paraphrase) How does your relationship add up to those characteristics? When there is an on-going problem in your relationship are you willing to bend to accomplish a solution that will benefit you as well as your partner? If, you love the other person unconditionally then you will. However, unconditional love is a learned, it does not just happen.

You must desire to deny yourself, and your feelings to accomplish unconditional love. It may not be easy, but it is attainable. Sometimes, we need to just let love happen without trying to figure it out or adjust it to meet our needs at that time. Life can be easier when we learn how to love each other in spite of and regardless of. If you are in a marriage and it seems to be suffering because one or the other of you is not operating in love, may I suggest that you take the challenge and allow love to exhibit itself through you without you asking for anything in return. I wonder what would have happened if Jesus decided not to love each of us enough to die for us with an unconditional love. Start from where you are today and practice unconditional love to your partner. Give it an honest try for at least 21 days and see what the results will be. After all, you have nothing to loose and everything to gain.