Loving the Unlovable

One of the things my mother told me often as I was growing up was that people are the most unlovable when they need the most love. It makes sense. When we are miserable, we give very little thought to any one else but ourselves. But isn't it hard to love someone when they're at their worst? It's much easier to avoid the person. But -- and here is the question you should constantly ask yourself -- would Jesus have chosen the easy way? Nope. He wouldn't. And He didn't. And He still doesn't.

He loves you and me, doesn't He? Are we always easy to love? Nope.

But He loves each and every one of us more than we can imagine. And He loves us when we're at our worst.

But, as Max Lucado often says, He loves us too much to leave us there. He wants us to live abundantly.

When you are feeling at your worst, remember how much your Father and His Son love you. And when someone is at their worst, remind yourself that God and Jesus feel the same way about that person.

"But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8).

"For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 8:38-39).

"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God" (2 Corinthians 1:3-4, emphasis added).