LOVE THEM ANYWAY • • •

Hey guys!! I hope you are having/have had a FABU day!

If you follow Joy Pages on instagram, you will have already seen this, but I wanted to share this here on the blog as well. I wanted to take a quick second (obviously more then 1 actual second #sorry) to share something that has been so heavy on my heart recently (how convenient cause I’m about to talk about love lol). Recently God has been reminding me and stressing in my life to not just love SOME people, but ALL people. I think we can all relate when I say BRUH THIS AIN’T EASY. A verse that has been pacing around in my head like a puppy who gotta pee concerning this subject is 1 John 4:20 which says, “ If someone says, ‘I love God,’ but hates a fellow believer, that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see.” This verse boiled down to the question in my head, “How can I say I love God if I don’t love HIS people who HE has PLACED in my life which isn’t even MY own life it’s HIS??” MAN, this has been so convicting to me. I don’t just need to love the people who I like, but I need to make an EFFORT to love EVERYONE. Even when it’s really, really, REALLY difficult. It’s OUR CALLING. One of the commandments God gives us is to love others just as God himself loves us (John 13:34) and YO GOD IS LOVE. God loves us NO MATTER WHAT. He loves us anyway. I love the word anyway in this sense any+way he loves us. He takes us as we are, though we are sinners and loves us ANYWAY (even tho). Remember, nobody is perfect and neither are you, but Gods greatness (part of his greatness is love) is made perfect in weakness (1 Corinthians 12:9). Always consider what someone is going through, and CHOOSE to love them ANYWAY. I want to encourage you today to question yourself, and your own actions. Challenge yourself to LOVE today. To love others is to Love God, who is love. YOU CAN DO IT PAL. #Joypages #Love #Godislove #Godsloveneverfails #truth Thank you for reading, have a great day!

Until next time, Mimi K