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1Heart
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| Posted 4/19/2004 7:47 PM (GMT -6) |   | Good evening Borg,
A friend of mine recently compared choosing love to "taking the high road." It is not always the easiest road to get to but the view is better, the air fresher... It is a choice but I do believe that we are able to love as we recognize who we are in Jesus Christ (who He is and who we are in Him). The more we walk in love, the more our character is transformed into the likeness of Jesus Christ. Not always easy, but always the best way.
1 Corinthians 13 describes love wonderfully. But I agree with John - there is no greater example of love than to freely give of yourself - to put the well being of others above that of your own. As with Jesus, laying down your life or taking up your cross may be difficult, even painful but we have to look beyond what we see right here, right now.
I believe Paul summed it up - the life of a disciple - when he said, "I die daily." It is continual submission to the Lordship of Christ in our life and allowing the Holy Spirit to grow fruit in us. It cannot be manufactured, it must be grown and it is our choice to co-operate with Him in this.
We love only because He first loved us. We are created in His image. yes the image has been marred but the cross came to restore that image as we are being transformed by the renewing of our minds.
I'm sounding preachy, and a preacher I'm not! 
Nite and God Bless,
Jo-Anne
"Sometimes all we can do is go back to the character of God, and drop anchor there."
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