Love is a movement

Lately I've been thinking alot about love, and our ability as humans to understand and practice it. We are taught in the scriptures that God is Love, and that every good and perfect thing comes from God. How then, in a fallen world where we are all born into the sin problem, can we understand how to love one another? I would challenge that we cannot. Through my experience, our humanity provides us with a broken representation of love. Even those with the best intentions, tend to fail often in the act of love.

So, if we are unable to love perfectly, does our attempt to love sometimes do more harm than good? I struggle with this as I look foreward in my life. Do I hurt people by loving them? The benefit must be more than the cost right? I mean, even though I may be imperfect, and I may hurt people in my attempt to love them, if I, if we stopped trying, what would the world be like? God created us in His own image. He designed us to love Him, and love each other. We were made to be examples of love in the purest form, but we are no longer pure without Christ. In our constant battle between God and our flesh, does our capacity to love translate into a capacity to cause great pain? Looking at the world today, it most certainly does. All around us people are causing pain, destruction, and death. God tells us to love anyway, with our whole hearts. Jesus came to earth to give us an example, and by His grace we are able to love God and each other, and try to make this world a better place. How are you succeeding and failing in your pursuit of loving God and the people in your life?