Loving the Unlovable

“To love means loving the unlovable” (G.K. Chesterton). Love is a four letter word with a million different definitions. You can love something, love someone, love practically anything: but can you love like Jesus loved? Jesus loved in an all consuming way. To love like he did is not a natural action. Loving like our heavenly father requires sacrifice, time, and constant restraint, “a feeling of strong or constant regard for and dedication to someone” (Merriam-Webster encyclopedia). Often when we think of the unlovable we think of robbers, murderers, and rapist; but are they different from you and I? What does it truly mean to love the unlovable to the standards of Jesus.

What are the standards that the bible gives us for love? To even begin to understand the standards we first have to look to God himself. Christianity is based solely on love and faith. God loved us enough, even through all of our sins, to send his only son to death. To him we were unlovable. We were sinners. We were murderers. We were thieves. We were rapist. Yet he gave us his only son. If we believe in him and who he is, why is it so hard to love? It is not hard to love because of the unlovable but because we are selfish. Often we over look the standards that the bibles gives us on love because it is inconvenient. We can do many good deeds but if we do not love they are worthless “If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body [a]to be burned, but do n...

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...lways. However we can! What would the world look like if we put aside our selfish desires and love in the way the Lord did. The love that Jesus has in infinite beyond belief. He loves deeper and wider than we can imagine. He truly loves us: the unlovable.

Works Cited

"Bible Gateway." BibleGateway.com: A Searchable Online Bible in over 100 Versions and 50 Languages. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Jan. 2014. .

"Love." Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 15 Jan. 2014. .

"“To Love Means Loving the Unlovable. To Forgive Means Pardoning the Unpardonable. Faith Means Believing the Unbelievable. Hope Means Hoping When Everything Seems Hopeless.”." Goodreads. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Jan. 2014. .