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of all the comandments, which is the greatest??
love you God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. the second is this, love your neihbor as you love yourself.
the second's easier said than done. at youth group tonight, we were talking about what God wants from us. its a series my youth pastor started last week. last week we talked about loving God, this week we talked about loving out neighbors.
now neighbors refers to more than just the people that live next to you. its more than just your friends. its the person in the back of your math class who no one talks to. its the girl who broke your heart. its the boy who liked you only because he thougth he could get into your pants. its the bully everyone's afraid of.
God wants us to love the people who have hurt us. and i know its hard. and i know that you dont want to forgive them for what they did, but if you dont, God cant forgive you.
take some time, think about who has wronged you. and it may be hard, but just forgive them. you dont have to tell them, you can just tell God if you want. but forgive them.
there was this guy from my church who started makin fun of me because of how i dress. he made me feel so horrible about myself. it went on for at least 3 years. and i nearly hated him for it. he moved away and i knew he couldnt say jack to me anymore...but still, i loathed him.
there was another guy, my sophomore year. he said that he liked me. and he seemed like a nice guy....and he was....when talking to me....around other people, he was a complete a$$h0le. he would tell an ex friend of mine that he really liked me, but then turned around and said he wouldnt go out with me if someone paid him. see, im kinda a social outcast at my school.
i had held on to my anger at both of these guys since they hurt me. and tonight i forgave them.
but i need to appologize to the second for callin him an a$$h0le....lol
i dont have to like them....and you dont have to like people who have wronged you...but you do need to show them Gods love. and the only way to do that is to love them like he does.
i know it may be tough to do, but we can do it ^_^
xXbrittanyXx
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