You cannot love anybody if you don't love God...
You cannot be nice to people if you are wicked to yourselves...
Love people even when they despise you...
Even when they are drawing many walls between you and them...
Life is full of people with lots of hatred...
Life is full of people with lots of grand materialistic achievements but tons of negative emotions...
When you go to the hospital/ hospice,
When you sit by the bedside of someone who is about to die...
Ask them: "What do you wish your life would be?"
They will say... "If only I have more time with my loved ones..."
Life...
It's all about love and relationship....
It's all about being with people and the connection that we are so fond of...
People who are about to die...
They ask for their family members and friends...
People who are so dear to their heart...
People whom they wanted to meet and forgive with all their heart and soul...
There will never once they will ask to see their academic certificate or the material possession...
Nobody... Not the death... will ask to see their precious trophy before they take their last breath...
Instead...
They ask for their family members and friends to stay with them until the very end...
That's love...
True love...
God's love....
Yet,
While we are still living,
We collect more possession than humans' love...
We push our loved ones aside and chase for monetary....
When our loved ones ask for more spending time,
Our frequent response is: "Later...", "Not now...", "Tomorrow" and etc...
So much of all these excuses have got to stop!
I once used to said to a friend:
"What if today... Right now - will be the last time you and I speak to one another? Are you going to tell me to stick to the corner and talk to the wall?
"You don't know what is going to happen to you when you walk out of the place... You have no guarantee that when you cross the road, you will reach the other side safely. You don't know which manic driver might come and knock you off the road. That could be your last breath... and if that ever happen, will you regret not loving and spending more time with people than you would of your possession?"
Just my two pence thoughts.
Also,
When you love people,
You love them unexpectedly and unconditionally...
You love because you want to...
Because it is truly from the very bottom of your heart...
But what happened when they are your enemies?
Do you wish them death?
Do you rejoice when they are gone?
What if your hatred towards them is just you being ultra hateful?
Hateful people are people with problem...
Not the person you hate...
But it is you who are being hateful - got it?
Why choose hate when you could love more?
Why wall them out when you should be breaking barriers?
Many people have issue with their relationship because they think the other party has got a problem...
But what if I were to tell you that...
"YOU are part of the problem...
YOU are the one that make life worst for them...
And that YOU are the one that need to love them..."
But we always deny our faults...
We keep pushing blame to others...
Just to make ourselves feel better...
When the truth is... We are more wrong than right...
You know the saying: "It takes two to tango..."
When two people are in a relationship,
It is always that two parties' fault;
But never one or the other...
In short to say: it is impossible to blame one person for two people's fault...
E.g: You cannot blame your sister for stealing your dress if you don't know how to hide them from her...
You cannot blame your mum for nagging at your messy room if you have learn to keep your space clean and tidy...
And when you play the blame game...
You also started playing the hate game...
And sooner or later...
There will be more hatred than love in your life...
Many of us love people because we want to get something out of them...
That is where danger comes in...
The truth:
You don't love them...
You are manipulating them...
There is no sincerity in you...
That's why God doesn't like the way we are...
That's why we are called 'sinners'.
We use people for the things we love...
When we are supposed to use things for the people we loves...
Like yourself and many others...
I have people drawing walls around me because they think I am overboard with my affection...
But I'll always say these...
"It doesn't matter what they think of me now - because they are still alive and well... They don't know what they lost... One day when they land on their deathbed, they will realised that they rather have people like myself to show affection to them; than those who keep sucking material possessions out of them - because I don't ask for anything in return except to love people more and more each day...
The last day will come; and when it does, I hope, it will not be too late... because I could have gone before them... For God takes those whom He loves... Those whom He rebuked and discipline. Those whom are earnest and repented... I know I am earnest and I repent every time I sin. Gasp when I made even a wee bit of mistakes in life; and running to God to ask for forgiveness. I fear of God more than any human being. Therefore I am afraid I might go before I am done loving those who needed more love than others."
So start treating people well...
They maybe your enemy on earth...
But they are also servant of God....
The children of God...
Just like you and me...
So love them as God loves you...
As 1 John 4:19 said: "We love because God first loved us."
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