What a Privilege it is to Love

My Beloved LORD,

It is a privilege to love - to love You, ourselves, our families, friends, pets, objects, anything and everything. What a privilege to love another simply because they are themselves. To love them for their flaws, their strengths, their quirks.

Today, a friend shared a lovely thing they wanted to do for another friend who was in need. A surprise act of kindness during a season of hardship. For nothing in return, only because of their love. What an awe-inspiring privilege love is.

Sometimes, we fear love. It can conjure up past hurts and disappointments, so we run from it. We run from those who would love nothing more than to love us, and we run when we would love nothing more than to love others. However, when we finally stop running and allow love to take hold of us, we can't help but think, "What was I running for?"

Peter sinking in the ocean comes to mind. To be brave enough to step onto the water's surface, brave enough to take a step, and then too fearful to believe in Your love to continue. We can be brave enough to think of love, we can be brave enough to consider love, and then too fearful to believe in it.

When this happens, we remember Your question to Peter in Matthew 14:31,

"...O, thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?"

We are of little faith, so quick to be stirred by the appearances of "wind boisterous." We are so quick to forget that You've said in Hebrews 13:5,

"...I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee."

You question why we doubt You, when You were in flesh and even now as Spirit. We can't help but lose memory of Hebrews 13:8, the very next verses,

"Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day and for ever."

This is the same with love, which You are. Love never leaves us nor forsakes us. Love is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And we of so little faith can't help but doubt Love.

In the Beloved name of Jesus I pray,

Amen.