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Loving others or someone else does not require we love ourself...thank God! I got over myself years ago, and it was the best decision I ever made. We are not the origin of love. To believe we are is to suggest we are our own god. We are not the Creator! We are the creation. Jesus is love! When we love Him and come to fully understand His love for us we are left with a desire to love others, and He teaches us how to love them. It’s the whole reason I do every one of these posts. His love for me d …

A loving man won’t be loving all the time. He will blow it and be rough around the edges, but he won’t defend his own selfishness. More often than not he will be loving. There is not a fiber of his being that can ignore the verbal or physical abuse of women. If another man is verbally or physically abusing a woman in his presence he will stop it or die trying. We need more loving men in this world! Jesus is our example! Galatians 5:22-26, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuf …

The first thing we need to consider before we speak into someone’s life is....what is the likely result of us speaking. Then we should consider how should we speak. The answer is always to speak in a way the other person is most likely to understand what we really mean. In other words, just saying what we think or speaking our mind is not always loving. Sometimes it’s selfish. We should never just speak our mind. We should speak the truth for others sake which means we must deliver the message i …

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 …

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! …

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 …

If someone loves you they will protect you. They are not perfect in love, but they will want to be. They won’t defend their selfishness. They will fight to protect you at all cost. They would prefer to pay the price then to see you pay the price for sin. If they hurt you, they will not make excuses. They will regret it and be quick to repent. If we love someone we will protect them, and if someone loves us they will protect us. If we love, we are more concerned with protecting then we are being …