This seems fitting, Easter is this weekend and this is when I am wrapping up my family series. Today I will be discussing unconditional love and how that looks in a family. First, what is unconditional love. Well, pretty much just as it sounds. It is love that knows no bounds. God taught us all about this type of love when He sent his son to die on the cross for our sin. This is why Easter is such a great time to be talking about unconditional love. God loves us no matter what. He loves us completely, there is nothing we can do to make God love us more and there is nothing we can do to make God love us less. This is unconditional love.
In a family we love each other not based on looks, accomplishments, or personality, we love each other based on the fact we are family. This is the way love should be in a family, however sometimes things don't work out that way. Sometimes, we as members of the family look too much to ourselves and not enough at our family as a unit. When this self-centered focus creeps in this is when we start to see love start to splinter. God's intention was for the love of family to always remain unconditional, however this is hard to attain without His help.
When your world becomes self-focused, you find it hard to love your family, your friends, your boss, even those you go to church with. You focus on what they have done that has hurt you and it starts rifts in the relationships in your life. When this happens the best way to get back on track is to start focusing on God. Once your focus is on God, who is love, it becomes much easier to love, to forgive and to rebuild relationships that have deteriorated over time. Even with God's help it isn't always going to be easy to love our family unconditionally, but it is easier than trying to do it on your own strength.
As we go through this Easter season, let God's love be a challenge and a reminder for us to become people who love unconditionally.
In a family we love each other not based on looks, accomplishments, or personality, we love each other based on the fact we are family. This is the way love should be in a family, however sometimes things don't work out that way. Sometimes, we as members of the family look too much to ourselves and not enough at our family as a unit. When this self-centered focus creeps in this is when we start to see love start to splinter. God's intention was for the love of family to always remain unconditional, however this is hard to attain without His help.
When your world becomes self-focused, you find it hard to love your family, your friends, your boss, even those you go to church with. You focus on what they have done that has hurt you and it starts rifts in the relationships in your life. When this happens the best way to get back on track is to start focusing on God. Once your focus is on God, who is love, it becomes much easier to love, to forgive and to rebuild relationships that have deteriorated over time. Even with God's help it isn't always going to be easy to love our family unconditionally, but it is easier than trying to do it on your own strength.
As we go through this Easter season, let God's love be a challenge and a reminder for us to become people who love unconditionally.