Changing Someone With Love
February 21, 2024
Can you make someone change by loving them? Something I’m currently working on is loving people who might be caught up in something I don’t agree with, or that I don’t think is healthy for them. I want to love based on the worth and value that Christ extends to all of us.
I don’t want to love with an agenda, or a hidden motive. Like, “I’m just loving you so I can get you to change.”
What kind of love is it that always has an asterisk attached to it? Is love enough, or do we have to change people?
If the change a person experiences is not rooted in a knowledge of how loved they are, it will always be works-based, and it won’t stick. You can’t live in fear of the love of God being taken away from you based on your behavior. To live hope, I need to love with no hidden agenda.
Remember, choose hope today.