Always be learning how to love your family and others well in order to build a beautiful life.

When Christ came and began His ministry, He taught His disciples the “love” commandments. John 15:12, “This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.” One of the greatest accomplishments a wife and mother can make is loving her husband and children. This can be done in so many ways.

According to Titus 2, the younger women are supposed to learn how to love their husbands and children. When I was newly married and had a baby I thought, “Why am I supposed to learn how to love my husband and children? Does this not come naturally?” Truth be told, our love is natural, but we must learn how to love our family in the specific way that they need to be loved. We typically love people in the way that we want to be loved. Instead, be learning how to love your family how they need to be loved.

Here are a few ways you can learn to love your family and others how they need to be loved (from the Master teacher himself:))…

 

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

John 15:13

 

   If we are going to love others how they need to be loved, we must be willing to sacrifice our personal needs to see that others have their love needs met.

We must be willing to give of ourselves until we are inconvenienced. You cannot love until you have been inconvenienced.

Reminding our loved ones of how we have been inconvenienced is not laying down our lives. When we lay down our lives for our loved ones we should give of ourselves without proclaiming our sacrifice with a martyr’s spirit. When we draw attention to our sacrifice, we take away the focus from what the Lord is trying to do through us, and the main focus becomes “us” instead of shifting the focus of sacrificial love to our loved ones. Christ wants to receive the glory with His sacrifice of love through you.  Many times we begin to feel “growing pains,” in a Spiritual sense, when we begin to give of ourselves to others.

      Our emotional tanks can linger on the empty side when we begin giving our time and attention to the ones we love.

This thought leads me to another verse.

 

“If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love;

even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.”

John 15:10

“These things I command you, that ye love one another.”

John 15:17

 

So many times I wonder if the Lord is pleased with me, and I ask Him so. When I was in college and first married with a couple of children, life was different than now. I could stay out for hours at a time telling people about Jesus, and how they could come to know Him. Those days would be exhausting, yet rewarding at the same time. Although, in days of laundry, training babies, sickness, poverty, exhaustion, mess, and more my spirit of love is tested.

This is the Lord’s commandment that we love one another, and that we learn how to love our families well.

 

This is pleasing to the Father that you are learning how to love your family well!

Titus 2:4 says, “That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,”

 

“These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you,

and that your joy might be full.

John 15:11

 

          You can experience deep joy in the midst of your sacrifice while you are learning how to love your family well.

So much of the time, women are searching for happiness amidst the wife, family, and career struggles. In John 16:22, Jesus says, “And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.”

 

If you are going to have a beautiful life, you must realize that every season has its up’s and down’s. Do not determine your future by how you feel today.

Sometimes a past hurt can keep you from enjoying today. Maybe you could read some of our past posts to receive some of the encouragement that you may need for today, such as:

“A life of joy radiates a life of peace and happiness.    A joyful spirit keeps you young at heart.    Rejoice is your choice.”

 

I hope you will take God’s Word and hide it in your heart. When the Devil comes and tells you that you cannot be happy in your circumstances, tell him that he is a liar. You have a truth that no one can take from you. You have a joy that cannot be lost. You have a love that cannot be quenched.

If you are going to have a beautiful life, you must be consistently be learning how to love your family well.

Check out our Faith page for more useful tips– Please feel free to comment and share. I love you!

 

Love,

Jackie