爱未必感觉很好。。。 Love may not feel all that good…

很多时候我们把爱和感觉搞混乱了，以为感觉很好才是爱，没感觉或感觉很不好时就以为已经没有爱的成分，或不需要再爱下去，因为感觉很勉强、很假、很虚伪。。。

试问，你觉得上帝或者主耶稣每一次爱我们时，那感觉一定很好吗？

一个全然圣洁恨恶罪恶的神，却选择去爱、去拥抱一个肮脏污秽的罪人，那感觉好吗？

然后被罪人拒绝，还要被羞辱、虐待、活活钉死在十架上，那感觉好吗？

就连信了主过后还很常不顺服和多次伤他的心，那感觉好吗？

而且爱我们这种人会带给他什么好处？
一点好处都没有！
反而还要帮我们解决一大堆问题，我们还很常缺乏感恩。。。

这些感觉都好吗？这样爱值得吗？我想感觉一定很不好，我也认为我们一点也不配得他的爱！
然而他却这样选择和决定爱我们，永不离开、永不放弃。。。

那感觉未必很好，甚至可以很确定说，感觉根本不好！
那他为什么还要爱？
因为。。。那才叫做真爱。

所以他说我们若真有爱心，也当爱别人如同他爱我们一样。。。
你身边是不是有一些你“必须”爱，但是却爱得感觉不是很好的人？
仰望主吧。。。

Many times we have confused or mixed up love and feeling, thinking there is love only when we feel good about it, and if it does not have any feeling or if it feels bad, then the element of love is missing, so we think there is no need to continue to love in situations like that because it feels like an obligation, very fake or hypocritical…

Let me ask you, do you think God or Jesus always feels very good each time He loves us?

A completely holy God who hates sins chooses to love and embrace a filthy sinner, does that feel good?

Then rejected by sinners, humiliated, tortured, and crucified on the cross, does that feel good?

Even after becoming a Christian, still very often disobey or hurt His heart, does that feel good?

In fact, what good does it bring Him for loving people like us?
Not a single benefit!
Instead He has to help us solve unending problems, and yet we are not always grateful…

Does all that feel good? Is it worth it to love like that?
I think it must feel terrible, and I do not think we deserve one bit of His love!
Yet He chose and decided to love us, and will never leave or abandon us…

That may not feel so good, in fact we can definitely say the feeling is not good at all!
Then why does He still want to love?
Because… that is called real love.

So He said, if we truly have love in our hearts, then we should love others like the way He loves us…
Are there people around you that you “need to” love but it does not feel all that good to love them?
Look to the Lord…