Live for Love

Sometimes we are so filled up with our lives that we forget how to live them.  We spend our time and energy at our jobs trying to make an impression.  Or we put our best effort into keeping up our houses, cars, and clothes so we can make an impression.  Those things are all temporary.  If we want to make a true impression, we have to do it with love.  Take time to let others know how much you value having them in your life.  Say it out loud to them.  Show them with your actions.  Put your best foot forward in what really counts, your loved ones.  In time your place of employment won't care that you ever existed.  The house, car, and clothes you've invested so much in will eventually be reduced to rubble and rags.  Love, though, it is everlasting.  It is so amazing how the love that a person shows can still remain fresh in the hearts of the receiver, even long after the giver has gone.  Think of God's love.  Thousands of years have come and gone since He sacrificed Christ for us, showing the ultimate expression of love.  Yet it still fills us and affects our lives today.  Having received such a heritage of love from our Father, we should pass it on. Your grand children's children may not ever know you, but they can experience your legacy of love as it passes from generation to generation.  Go ahead and get the good job, nice home, good car, and such. But don't live for them.  Live for love.

Prayer: Lord your word says love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God.  Help us to know love and to help others to know love, because knowing love is knowing you.