Monday's Encouragement: Love vs. Love

This is Monday's catch up post! 

Whether you're homeschooled, public schooled, or older, you are bound to meet someone that you don't like. Maybe there's a reason, perhaps they just get on your nerves. The hard thing that we all have to remember is that in the bible, God calls us to love our enemies. To pray for those who persecute us.

What does loving our enemy mean? I once thought it meant I had to be best friends with the meanest 5th grade girls you have aver seen, but that's not quite right.

To me, there are three types of love: friendship love, romantic love, and a Christian love, which it what we will talk about now. 

Christian love is what we are called to have for everyone around us. How does this work?

We are called to have compassion for those who are terrible to us. Those 5th grade girls, the rude neighbors, even that one boy who was possibly the worst human being I have encountered yet. Does this means I go along with them? No. Does this mean I need to make them my new best friends? Also no.

It means that I offer a smile when they scowl at me. It means that I forgive them when they curse me. 

So with that in mind, let's finish of this week with some extra compassion for the world around us! -- Aviya ❤️