Agape. To see people and to care for people as God sees and cares for them. I think that would be such an amazing gift: to be able to see people as God sees them. Agape is one of the most beautiful things on earth, and when I see it in someone else, I am dazzled!!
We all have our strengths and weaknesses as Christians. I am loving and loyal to those I love, but to be kind and considerate to those I find difficult, or who get on my nerves--wow! That is a challenge I often totally muff.
I was aware that I was not being particularly loving towards a couple of people who were in my life. I wasn't being mean; I was just tuning them out, which is easy for an intense woman like me to do: just turn my thoughts to something else.
I only have one solution when all my resources fail.
I pray.
So because there was no way I had any chance, humanly speaking, to implant love in my heart for these people, I asked God to implant his love into my heart.
I wasn't conscious of any change in my feelings, but obviously the molecular structure of my emotions and attitude must have changed, and they must have picked it up. We spent a few hours together, peacefully, placidly, and contentedly.
Oh my goodness!! Why did I not pray about my chilly heart earlier?
"Oh what grace we often forfeit,
Oh what needless pain we bear,
All because we do not carry,
Everything to God in prayer."
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