Obvious right?  But seriously…we are supposed to be… It’s amazing that while I strive to more like Him, I find my eyes being opened to how I am not. Woohoo!  I try to be like Him, to love like he does, to care like He does and to share the love He has for others, but… I am not Jesus.I try, but I fail…

WE fail…

I still make mistakes…

WE still make mistakes…

Still…

Oh that the grace of God surrounds this trying heart and refreshes it with vision – that is my daily prayer, that I would never take the opportunity to get hurt, or to hurt (it’s not my right).  For me, hurt is offense – I don’t want that.  No matter how difficult,  I never want to get my feelings hurt, because that is the instance that I become self-focused.  I can hear family saying it now “Oh but you have the right to have emotions, God made emotions…”

Yes God made emotions, like love and joy and peace …  but sin has perverted the emotions into self-preservation. It is out of that perverted, self-focused emotion that shame, hurt, sadness, and offense are birthed.

I know I am just going on, but I want to know how to LOVE like HE does, to really care for people the way that He does.  Don’t get me wrong, I have learned SO much, and Nili and I LOVE… like really, really LOVE people.

Don’t misinterpret, I am not down, nor in any way disappointed… I am growing and falling more in love with God, and thus more in love with people.  And I pray that this passion never dies in me… no matter how much I learn to love.

Oh, that I could love like Jesus…

Oh, that WE could love like Jesus…

That is my prayer…

And if that means I have to fail 900 times to learn how to do it right…

Then as Thomas Edison would say, I will have learned how to NOT do it 900 different ways, and I have found the right one!

Go love somebody

B