TRUE love doesn't give up. It presses on even when things are crashing. Even when everything is taken away, it reaches to find the one. True love invests, true love reaches, true love pursues, true love sacrifices. True love won't let go of a hand. True love will grasp at everything until it finds what it is looking for. TRUE LOVE IS OF GOD!
GOD's LOVE calls us into a world that is beat up, cut down, broken down, forgotten, crushed, unwanted, un-healed, troubled, hurting, lost, and beacons us to fight for them. I see their faces. Most days their faces haunt me. They don't have a father or mother, no one loves them, they cut themselves, they starve themselves, they talk about how unlovely they are, they talk about how abused they are, they talk about how they are told they are nothing, they try drugs, they are haunted by the images they look at, they have no self resect, they look for love in all the wrong places....AND YET MOST PEOPLE DON'T TAKE TIMET TO NOTICE A GENERATION UNLOVED!
I fight for a generation that is haunted by feeling LOVELESS. A fight for a generation that has never been hugged. I fight for a generation that has never been told that they are proud of them. I fight for a generation that has never been told they are lovely. I fight for a generation that has never been told about a love--a love that is not like any other love. A love that never abandons, never leaves, never judges, never beats, never cuts down with words, BUT A LOVE THAT HEALS....A LOVE THAT RESTORE....THE LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST!
Call me a sentimental youth pastor...but I am fighting to LOVE MY STUDENTS with the LOVE OF GOD that will save them, restore them, and enable them to do great things with their lives for GOD!
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