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Feeling love for someone is not equal to loving them. Many times the feeling of love is the fruit of love. It can also be infatuation, or a strong desire for someone or something for what we can gain. We may also feel love for someone we actually love. It is so important we know the difference. Love doesn’t expect anything in return. If we love ourselves we expect to be loved. This trap destroys so many relationships. “The Right Fight” takes at look at this from many angles and digs deeper to th …

It’s not loving to knowingly allow people with no intention of changing to keep running over you. That’s selfishness. Love does trust and seeks truth, and if people are truly repentant after failing, then love trusts again and again. We all fail - often even when love rules our life. We have a responsibility to seek the truth and pray and decide if someone is really in the fight to live a loving life. If they are, we should trust God, pray for them, and give them a second chance. Trusting someon …

I’m not positive, but I don’t think love even exists until a sacrifice is required. When someone hurts us, then a sacrifice is required. We can either sacrifice them, or we can sacrifice ourself. Fear will sacrifice them. Love will be the sacrifice, but love won’t sacrifice for foolishness. It will only be the sacrifice for truth. Love always perseveres. If someone really loves you, they will want what is truly best for you. Even if love forces them to step away, they will still want you to live …

II Timothy 3:16-17 “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. “ If someone agrees with you even when you know you’re wrong, maybe they don’t love you. Who do you know that you can count on for telling you the truth for your own sake, even if it hurts? They love you! Thank them! …

Loving to be loved is not love it’s manipulation. If someone is loving us because we love them, then they may not be loving us at all. They may be loving themselves. It’s not always malicious either. Sometimes it’s all they know, and sometimes it’s all we know. That’s why it’s so important we love Jesus, because He will teach us how to really love. If the person who loves you hates their enemies, that’s a …

  Anger and all sin are most often our enemy. I do believe there is a righteous anger, but it’s rare. Righteous anger is anger for the damage sin causes, or an anger for someone using love to hurt people....using Jesus to manipulate people. That’s why Jesus threw the tables. Most of the time though, anger is our enemy and not our friend. Rebellion and riots are a trap. Before we get stuck on anger, we must follow one truth to the next truth to the next truth. Truth leads to more truth. …

Justice as I understand it, is a payment equal to the damage done in an effort to restore the damaged. If someone hurts us, they can’t fix us and we can’t fix ourselves. Justice does not restore us. Loving over time is the only thing that can restore us. Demanding justice keeps us from loving over time, and only ensures we are not restored. Repentance is truly best for others...real repentance....real change. Matthew 18:23-35 “Therefore, the Kingdom of Heaven can be compared to a king who decide …

Not everyone we call a boss is a boss. Some are leaders. A boss sees authority as power. A leader sees authority as a responsibility to listen and serve people. A boss protects themselves and a leader protects their people. A successful mission is the fruit of a loving team not the result of one driving others. Even if wealth or success comes for a boss it comes with regret. Proverbs 10:22 The blessing of the Lord, brings wealth, and He adds no sorrow with it. …

Love is patient because it wants what is best for others. Fear lacks patience because it’s afraid it will lose what it wants. The first sign someone may really love you is that they will be patient. They won’t be in a hurry. Taking our time in a loving relationship only leads to love growing stronger if love rules the relationship. If love doesn’t rule the relationship, being patient gives time for the truth to be exposed. Be patient and know that if someone who says they love you is not patient …

The hardest part of living a loving life can be the times we don’t know what’s right. When we have no idea what to do next, we should pray and wait. Jesus is love. The Holy Spirit is our guide and God’s Word is our compass. We must read His Word so we know what is best and right, but even then sometimes choosing right can be difficult. Making a wrong decision is not the end of our journey, and it doesn’t ensure our failure. We all make fearful and faithless decisions, and we all chose wrong some …