Are you doing what God has told you to do despite what others are doing? Sometimes life gets hard and sometimes people around you don't respond the way you thought they would or should but you can't allow another persons response to control your actions. If God tells you to pray for someone, you need to pray. If He tells you to give to someone, you need to give. What you do should not be based on what another person does. It is hard sometimes to move past what someone has done to you. How they treat you and how they respond to you can be hard to overcome but remember everything you are doing should be looked at as your response to God and His love for you and not your response to people and what they have done to you.
How you respond to God's love is up to you. You have to remember what you do for others, you are doing for God. You are God's vessel in the earth. He created you on purpose with purpose and that purpose includes you being His representative in a lost and dying world. That purpose calls you to be a light in the midst of darkness and a voice of hope in a world that is filled with fear.
How do your respond to hate? How do you respond to negativity? How do you respond to love? Make sure you are responding to hate with love. Make sure you are responding to negativity with love. Make sure you are responding to love with love. We have to understand that God is love and our response to every situation we encounter in life should include who and what He is. Let your response always be a love response.
SCRIPTURE MEDITATION
1 John 4:7-10
King James Version
7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
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