God is love

God is the ultimate example of true, eternal, perfect love.
As a teenager, I get so caught up and excited at the thought of true love. I love my friends and my family, but that love is quite pathetic compared to the love god has for us, each of his children.

He loves us so he sent his son to be sacrificed for our sins, to bleed from every poor and to be rejected by man. He loves us all so much that he watched his only begotten son suffer for each of us, individually,  one at a time. I imagine being a parent and the intangible and unimaginable amount of love I have for my beautiful baby girl or handsome baby boy. I would be so upset and angry if anyone even thought about hurting my child, and how I would do anything to protect him/her from the cruelty of the world. I can only imagine how terribly hard it must be for god to see us, his children, backstabbing and hurting one another. He has the power to stop the backstabbing and the pain, but enough love to let us make mistakes, hurt, and learn. he loves us with a perfect love, and forgives us no matter how bad we screw up.

When we gossip, make others upset, judge, or hurt someone, we have to keep in mind that the people we are hurting are gods precious children. They are worth everything to God. Jesus Christ already suffered for their sins, why should we make them suffer for them too?  He loves and cares about them just as much as he loves and cares about you. 

"LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER: FOR LOVE IS OF GOD; AND EVERYONE THAT LOVETH IS BORN OF GOD AND KNOWETH GOD. FOR GOD IS LOVE." -John 4:7-8