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Love can be undeserving, but being surrounded by the right people makes you deserving of their love. Love may not always be reciprocal; not everyone reciprocates the same tempo and energy of your love, and that's fine because some are probably not used to receiving love.
There was a time in my life when I misunderstood what love is. I thought that, before you can be loved, you ought to have certain things or be able to exchange them for other things. I found it weird and absurd to tell someone you love them, especially if it's with my fellow gender. Only for me to meet friends who love words of affirmation; they made love seem seamless and stress-free. I realized that love is actually not stressful; it's supposed to flow from your heart, whether the person is deserving of it or not, or whether it's reciprocated or not.
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It's also safe to say that love is sacrifice. It may sound like a cliché to give an illustration of how God sacrificed His only son, Jesus Christ, to die for sins He didn't commit. At the beginning of this year, I started my Bible study plan from the book of Genesis. Getting to the book of Exodus and Leviticus, I didn't know when I started thanking God for the salvation of my soul. With the present price of ram and cow, I tried calculating the amount of money my parents would spend on livestock to atone for our sins and theirs. Not leaving out the fact that God also loved the Israelites and was merciful to them.
When God sent Adam and Eve out of the garden of Eden, He clothed them. Sometimes, I just think of some things and say thank God I am not God; I would have actually killed a lot, including myself. The love of God cannot be fully explained; it can't be understood fully because it's just so unconditional. It can't be exchanged or compared to anything; it's not based on conditions. God loved me when I was yet a sinner, and He never stopped loving me till and after I gave my life to Christ.
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It reminds me of the story of the prodigal son whose father's arms were always open during the time he went astray, and he never closed his arms until his son came to his senses and ran back home to his father's arms.
The love of God is merciful and never condemns nor judges. When I was in 300 level, I was one of the teachers for my fellowship's discipleship academy. My prayer life lagged at a point due to too many activities that I was engaged in. It started affecting me, and there was a day I was asked to take a class on prayer and Bible study. I was about to give an excuse from teaching, but the way the Holy Spirit gave me the go-ahead to teach, I was bold again to teach. It felt like the Holy Spirit was literally speaking through me; I was learning as I was teaching. I just got home that day and broke down in tears because I didn't think I deserved to teach, neither did I deserve to run back to God because I've been far from Him. I was shocked when I felt the Holy Spirit literally hugging me and making me understand that missing a day with my Father doesn't mean I should keep avoiding Him by not communicating with Him in prayers. I felt the love and warmth of God in a different way that day. I had to pen down how I felt in my journal the next day.
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The love of God is peculiar to each and every one of us. To some, His love is merciful; to some, it is overwhelming and amazing. What's the definition of God's love to you?
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