I'm happy that God has given us the command to love others. In recent events that have taken place in my life, God has showed me that He commands us to love others to teach us many things about Himself, ourselves and others. In the big picture, if we really think about it, helping others can be done in 2 different ways: 1. For the sole purpose of self-satisfaction or 2. Because we want to show God's love through us. When it comes down to it, if you are helping others to please yourself you are not going to be satisfied in the end because we as humans fail, but if we do it in want of pleasing God, satisfaction will occur because God will not fail us.
Recently, God has shown me that the best thing to do in helping others is to love them with a Christ-like love and don't try to change them. People will change on their own and must make their own choices. That's why we need to lead by example through our actions.
A challenge I give to everyone this week: Love others and help them because you want to please God, not because you want to satisfy yourself.
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