A few years ago one of my favorite bands Casting Crowns came out with a song called "Love Them Like Jesus". It is a song about how sometimes there is nothing you can do for someone but love them....not the gushy, mushy, warm fuzzy kind of love but a love like Jesus has for us. The chorus of this song says.....
Love them like Jesus, carry them to Him
His yoke is easy; His burden is light
You don't need the answer to all of life's questions
Just know that He loves them and stay by their side
Love them like Jesus
As I heard this song for the first time and really listened to the lyrics I began to cry. I thought of my children. I am constantly trying to guide them, correct them, teach them, prepare them, counsel them, fix them, pray for them etc...etc...etc...but what God really wants from me is to love them and to be quite honest, that's not an easy task.
You see, God gave me some very special children. Some of my children have attachment disorder.....they don't know how to love. Loving someone who loves you back is easy (or at least easier) but loving someone who doesn't love you is tuff! But my job as the parent of a RADlet (a child with Reactive Attachment Disorder) is to teach them love...how do you teach them? Buy loving them.
Isn't that what Jesus did? We love because He first loved us. 1Jn 4:19
That love-only the love God can put in us! He can do this through you and He is!
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