Let Love Lead – Living through the eyes of compassion

Being alive on earth automatically means interacting with other humans is inevitable. When you are a baby, you are born into a family, and that marks the first step of living with other human beings. As you get older, you get into spaces where you will meet more people completely different from who you are, people from different races, with different beliefs and characters. If each of us doesn’t get a chance to live on our own planet but instead has to share it with others, then interacting with people should be a significant part of our personal development journey.

Interacting With People Can Be Difficult.

While each individual has an inherent desire for human connection and belonging, being around other human beings is not always easy. First of all, we are all different, and instead of finding beauty in our differences, it tends to cause friction in the way we interact with other people. You find yourself meeting someone for the very first time, and instantly you don’t like them because of the way they presented themselves or something they have done, which is normal to us. As an individual yearning to live as the best version of themselves, this is not the best way to show up. This is not the way God intended us to live. He said we should love our neighbors. He was the greatest example of this when he extended grace to us. He didn’t do this because we were good to him; on the contrary, we were far from it, but he still did because God is love, and he looks at us through the eyes of compassion and mercy, and that is how you and I are meant to live.

Letting love lead is hard because some people thrive from diminishing anyone different from them, slandering peers to get to the top, connecting with other individuals over the next person’s misery, and ill-treating because they are in a position to. I don’t believe that living in this way brings fulfilment to our lives. While some may view letting love lead as a weakness, it’s courageous and, to a certain extent, requires vulnerability. It may be considered weak to “not put someone in their place” when they wrong you, but it takes more strength to respond from a position of love.

What does it mean to let love lead?

God taught us how to lead with love in our daily lives.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor/ slander others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices in the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Letting love lead means your decisions and actions stem from love. Instead of being led by fear, anger, or other negative emotions, your actions stem from love. Love has the power to save, change, and bring hope where hope was lost. Be the light in someone else’s life while on your personal growth journey today by letting love lead.

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