Do you know what it's like to love someone?
They become your everything, your hopes and dreams. You become their biggest fan and their support system. Your world begins to revolve around them and what they do. They consume your time and your mind. They make you smile, laugh, cry, and feel things that you've never felt before.
But what if that person doesn't love you back?
They go on living like you don't exist. They don't care about you, your hopes or dreams. They don't want you around. They might even go and love someone or something else other than you. They may not knowingly treat you like this, but maybe they do know. Either way they don't feel the same way you feel about them.
Do you still love them?
If you truly loved them from the beginning, you'll still love them even after they practically threw your heart on the ground. That is true love. Loving someone when they don't love you back or when they don't deserve it.
I've experienced this before, and in the midst of my heartbreak I've thought,
"This must be how God feels when someone He loves doesn't love Him back." He is passionate about us! Not just Christians, everyone! He wants us to experience His love and blessings, but most of all, eternal life! He needs us to go out and show people know how much He loves them! They are never too far away to come to Him, repent and ask forgiveness. We are it, there is no plan B!
"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age" -Matthew 28:19-20. It is not a suggestion, but a command! Some of us are senders and some of us go, but we all play a part!
John Piper says, “When it comes to world missions, there are only three kinds of Christians: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient ones.” Which one are you?
