{"id":1176,"date":"2022-04-08T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellspringwords.life\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2022-06-07T14:34:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T14:34:52","slug":"how-do-we-love-like-christ-loved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellspringwords.life\/?p=1176","title":{"rendered":"How Do We Love Like Christ Loved?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If we&#8217;re truthful, there are people in life who we just don&#8217;t want to deal with&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe they&#8217;ve hurt us.                                                                                                                          Perhaps they&#8217;re pushy.                                                                                                                              Some people can be&#8230; annoying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to let them aggravate, to dread seeing them, to think things we wish wouldn&#8217;t go through our head. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t29\/1.5\/16\/1f602.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude02\"> (It&#8217;s true!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We find ourselves reminding our flesh, &#8220;You&#8217;re a Christian, act like one.&#8221; (Sigh&#8230;.) Yeah, the disappointment we feel in ourselves for having to be checked. And maaay-be even a little resentment that we have to be the bigger person sometimes, with certain people. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tb0\/1.5\/16\/1f609.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude09\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We really do want to live right, love them, be a witness, see them find God, be good to them&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just maybe not so much right at this moment. lol BUT, if this were the last day of our life, how would we treat them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t we feel more of an urgency to do the right thing? &#8230;to show Christ&#8217;s light to them in this moment? 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