Love and Acceptance

      How much should we go out of our way to make someone feel accepted? I believe God created us with a desire to be loved and accepted. He wants us to find our love and acceptance in Him. If we don’t find it in God, we will try to find it in our friends and peers. We will also find ourselves feeling inferior.
      In the last month or so I've been thinking about certain aspects of a family. God created families and it was in His plan for us to live in one. If we don't have a family or have moved on, we have a desire to start one of our own. I asked someone what they thought the most important aspect of a family was. Their answer was, "unconditional love." That is so true! Without it, families fall apart. With it, we feel accepted and loved no matter what we do, what we say, or what happens.
        Now I compared it to God's family. When we find our love and acceptance in God and belong to His family, we should practice unconditional love. Without it, God's family, (The Church or whatever you want to compare it too) will start to fall apart. Our relationships will become strained and we will distance ourselves from our friends. We'll start to get offended and the unity we had will start to sever.

1 John 4:7  Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.


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