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We should forgive because we are forgiven, and we should love because we are loved. Living a loving life and forgiving others truly is the best possible thing we can do for ourself, but if done for ourself it’s all in vain. It’s burned up as wood, hay and stubble. Love is for others. Love for any other reason is not love at all. It’s using love to get what we want. It’s using God for our own benefit. Forgive because you are forgiven, and love because your are loved. Even if it gains you nothing. …

Fighting for love is the fight to be kind, patient, truthful (honest even when it hurts), protective of others, trust, hope, and persevere for the sake of others. If we love someone who is not loving us and should be, then we should first ask why and be willing to listen. It may be that we are making it very difficult for them to love us. Then after listening....if we believe the other person is being selfish, love requires we tell them for their own sake as kindly as we can. It’s not loving to …

If we are not careful we may think if someone takes advantage of our trust, that our trust is the problem. If we think our trust is the problem, then we will stop trusting and stop loving. This mistake will lead to destroying love in our lives. Love requires if someone is taking advantage of our trust, that we ask them “why” for their own sake. Then we have to make the toughest decision of all. We have to decide... have they truly repented. Will they truly change? If we don’t believe they will c …

Trusting God is looking at your circumstances, looking at your fears, looking at God’s Word and deciding to trust what God says more than anything else. In the end, after looking at all options, we all act on something and we all trust something. It’s really crazy to think our feelings are more dependable than God’s Word, yet it’s still a tough fight to trust God’s Word when our feelings are so real. Feelings being real does not make them valid or true. “The Right Fight” is the fight to trust Go …