Two Major Life Choices

What do love & forgiveness have in common?  They are both a choice, a very deliberate choice made in life’s journey.

Yes, they both have Strong feelings & emotions attached to them, but when looked into closely, they are not entirely based on an emotion or a feeling but on a choice.

There are four types of Love; Familial (storge) Jhn 11:1-44 this is love among family & family members, Brotherly love (phileo) Rm12:10 this is love among friends & among those who care for others who are not blood relatives, Agape Love (God’s perfect Love) 1Jhn 4:8 this is how God loves us and our goal is to have this kind of love, Romantic love (Eros) Sngsol 1:1-2 this is love between two married male & female people.  When Romantic love is not within God’s laws it becomes sexual immorality 1Cor 6:18.  In each of these types of Love mentioned you choose who & how to love them.  There are stages of forgiveness but in the end one either chooses to forgive or not to forgive.

You choose to love & you choose to forgive, once the choice is made, the one who makes those choices, goes through life having a lighter load & joyful life, than when these choices were not made.

Choose to Love & Forgive others and most importantly; Choose to Love & Forgive yourself as you go through this journey of life.

 

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THE GREATEST COMMANDMENTS

I watched the movie forever strong and they had one overall rule to live by, ‘don’t do anything to embarrass myself, my team or my family’. I added to it a little bit to say; I will not do anything to embarrass my God, myself, my team and my family. I believe we all need a rule to live by mine is below.

When Jesus was asked about the first commandment, He said the greatest commandments are these two. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength & Love your neighbour as yourself. Mk 12: 29 -31

I have always wondered why we are told just to love our neighbour & not ourselves. We breakdown the commands into two Love God and Love your neighbour; but these commands represent three parties and not two as mostly perceived. It says Love your neighbour as yourself, not more than yourself and not less than yourself. This does not mean one is to be selfish and just thinking of themselves, neither does it mean to neglect yourself. I believe it means one is self-aware.

If you Love God with your whole self then you become self-aware and Love yourself. Since God is Love then you embody Love and you become Love to yourself. When you cannot Love yourself then it is difficult for you to love others. I guess this is where they got the saying God helps those who help themselves.

You need to love yourself and the only way to Love and face yourself is by Loving and facing God. You can try to love others by helping them, doing good deeds and being kind but that is not love, those are just good deeds.

True Love for others emanates from True Love of God and Self.
Love God, Love yourself, Love others that’s God’s Formula.

Like Paul told the husband to love His wife like himself, Eph 5:33 meaning the husband should love himself first, in order to be able to love his wife, but for him to do that he needs to love God first, then himself then he will be able to Love his wife.

When you can’t Love God, you are not able to Love yourself or others. These commands are a formula with three key ingredients, where all three ingredients need to be present for it to work, without all three ingredients mixed in, it’s a form of Love but not True Love. It’s Love without God’s power.

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