Love 3/15/10

I want to know the LOVE Jesus has for me. I want to study how he shows it and gives it. I want to be challenged to evaluate how I give His love, and how He showers me with it every day!

I am loved through Grace. I am loved through constant forgiveness. I am loved through the cross and resurrection!

God, teach me to be:

patient,

kind,

happy with what I have,

humble,

considerate,

slow to anger,

forgiving,

happy in truth,

protective,

trusting,

hopeful,

and persevering.

Help me to evaluate where I stand with EACH of your criteria. Show me the ways you were patient and the ways you were slow to anger. I want to be like you and love like you Jesus.

Patience - I need to be more patient when I'm driving. Overall, I would say I am patient with situational events and the small things that come every day, which are totally out of my control.

Kind - I need to be more kind to myself and those closest to my heart. I feel like I am kind to most people and overly kind to those I do not know or those I need to impress. It seems like it's easiest to be rude to, and not kind to those whom I claim to love. If I tell you I love you, and you feel I am not always kind to you - I am sorry. I want to give my life away.

Happy with what I have - this I probably have to work on, but I feel like I have too much. I am SO thankful for what I have because I know its all a gift. This one is not hard for me because in a materialistic world, I have a lot of materials. This command in the context of love is different. "Do not envy". Does that mean if I am envious of someone else then I do not love them? Or does that mean I don't love Christ because it shows I am not grateful for what He has given me?Where does envy come into hate/love, good/evil? I know its not good or healthy to be envious but Jesus teach me why it's not loving to be envious.