Love That Looks Like Jesus

💡Love Isn’t Always Easy

We love the idea of love — until it’s tested.
It’s easy to love people who are kind, affirming, and appreciative. But what about the ones who misunderstand us? Who wrong us? Who rub us the wrong way?

That’s where our love becomes less about emotion and more about devotion.

Jesus calls us to love even when it hurts.
Even when it’s not returned.
Even when our flesh screams, “Not this time.”

Because love is not just what we feel — it’s how we reveal Him.

🧱 1. Love Is a Spiritual Discipline

When Jesus said, “Love your enemies,” He wasn’t offering a suggestion for the super-spiritual. He was giving a standard for every believer.

It’s not a love based on merit — it’s based on mercy.
It’s not driven by feelings — it’s fueled by the Spirit.

To love when it's hard is to train your heart to beat with Heaven’s rhythm.
It means choosing compassion over retaliation, grace over gossip, and prayer over pettiness.

This kind of love doesn’t come naturally — it comes supernaturally.

🔁 2. Hurt People Hurt People — But Healed People Love Anyway

Behind every difficult person is usually a deep wound.
Sometimes their harshness is a defense mechanism.
Sometimes their offense is rooted in trauma.
Sometimes they’re just spiritually lost — and you may be the only glimpse of Jesus they’ll ever see.

That doesn’t make their behavior right — but it does make your response important.

When we choose to love people who are hard to love, we become walking vessels of God’s redemptive power.
We offer what the world rarely does: grace without condition.

🧡 3. You Don’t Have to Agree to Love Well

In today’s divided world, love is often mistaken for endorsement.
But biblical love is deeper than surface-level approval.
It’s not about agreeing with someone’s choices — it’s about valuing their soul.

Jesus didn’t water down truth to keep the peace.
But He also didn’t withhold love to make a point.

You can love people without compromising conviction.
You can serve them without sharing their values.
You can be kind without pretending there’s no tension.

This is love that confuses the world — and glorifies the Kingdom.

✝️ 4. When It’s Hard to Love, Remember the Cross

When Jesus hung on the cross, He looked out at the very people who mocked, tortured, and rejected Him — and He loved them anyway.

He didn’t wait for an apology.
He didn’t demand that they change first.
He said: “Father, forgive them.”

If anyone had the right to withhold love, it was Him.
But instead, He showed us what real love costs — and what real love gives.

Every time you love someone who doesn’t deserve it, you participate in the upside-down, world-changing Kingdom of God.

🙏 A Prayer for Loving When It’s Hard

Jesus,
You see the people I struggle to love.
You know the wounds, the tensions, the unspoken pain.
I confess that sometimes I want to give up, withdraw, or respond in bitterness.
But I also know that You have called me to a higher way — Your way.
Fill me with Your compassion.
Teach me to see them through Your eyes.
Help me to respond with grace, to pray with sincerity, and to forgive with freedom.
Let my love be a reflection of Your heart — strong, steady, and unconditional.
Use me as a light, even when it’s uncomfortable.
I trust You to do the healing.
In Your name, Amen.

📖 Scriptures to Meditate On

• Luke 6:27-28 — “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.”

• Romans 12:17-21 — “Do not repay anyone evil for evil... If your enemy is hungry, feed him... Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”

• Proverbs 10:12 — “Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.”

• Matthew 5:46-48 — “If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that?”

• 1 John 4:20 — “Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar... whoever loves God must also love their brother and sister.”

With love,

Brandon

Kingdom Mentality

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