The hunger for meaningful Christian togetherness has grown enormous in today's world. And I think the hunger is intensified by the fact of our actual shyness, our inhibitions, our clumsiness in handling each other. Think about your average married partners. In their minds are wild, wonderful dreams of how they'd like to treat each other, sizzling straight off the pages of novels! But in reality? They'd be terrified of anything a cut above tepid and predictable. Don't you think most of us Christians are the same? We love to talk and dream "relationships," but in actuality our own often seem to be self-serving, phony, disappointing or at least just unappealing.
We need to look hard at the Bible's kind of love.
It's realistic.
It's tender.
It's aggressive.
It's tenacious.
It's jealous.
It's forever.
It's emotional.
It's total.
It's unspeakably sweet.
It's tough.
God loves us with tough love... and that's the way we need to learn to love each other. AUTHOR: Anne Ortlund (Read Romans 12:9-16)
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