Loving Right
The older I grow the more I see many hurt in the hands of those who love them. The book I’m reading at the moment is centred on that theme. It’s not a Christian book or anything, it’s a ‘un-put-downable’ novel by Sheila O’Flanagan. It has made me wonder what we are doing wrong when it comes to love. The major problem is that sifuna ukuqala ngokugcinwa ngakho (we want to start with what should come last). What makes me say this is the order that God gives in His Word when it comes to loving. “ Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself .’” Matthew 22:37-38 We want to start loving by loving others. But as with everything in life, love begins with God. I need to first know God, who is love, this means in knowing Him, having a living relationship with, I get to know what love truly is. 1 John 4:8 puts it this way: “