On Monday night my core advisor rolled out a Core growth plan. She feels that as a Core we need to learn how to love one another. I totally agree with her in this decision.
1 John 4:7-8 “Dear Friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love is not of God and does not k now God, for God is love.”
John 15:13 “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.”
Psalm 133:1 “How good and pleasant is it when brothers live together in unity!”
This past week we have had to eat all meals together, be together from 8-10pm, carry an egg around (the egg symbolizes our core), have our quiet time togethers and only talk to each other. All of these activities are meant to draw us closer together as a core and teach us how to love one another.
It has been so hard to love them at times. People have attitudes and disrespect you. Sometimes I feel like they don’t deserve my love. But how wrong is that! I didn’t deserve God’s love, but God gave it to me anyway. So I am learning how to not be led by my emotions.
It has also been difficult to love them because I feel like they do not love me back. At times I have had my own attitude about things we have to do because my core isn’t doing it with their whole heart. I feel I am justified to have a sour attitude. My reasoning is that since they aren’t loving, then I don’t have to love them. But I am proven wrong, again. My motiviation for loving shouldn’t be because I am going to be loved back. I have no guarentee of that. My motivation for loving should be because God has loved me, I am going to love others. Jesus is my example of love.
