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Every decision you make in life is dependent on what truly makes you happy or your goal in life because it is from there you build your value and make tangible decisions in every area of your life.
One of the importance of building a relationship is by building or gaining trust. It gets you comfortable to be able to being yourself. Helping others doesn't make you less or hurt you in any way. Helping someone can have a ripple effect in the long run. Most people don't think about the long run.
Your association determines your destination. You can't walk with giants and remain a dwarf. Those you association with determines how well and fast you go in life. A man will remain the same in 5 years except for two things...the books he reads and the association he keeps. Those you associate with will either make or mar you.
We sometimes get too comfortable that we don't want to stretch our circle of influence. We take extra precautions and try to stay within our familiar territory. Ths association you cultivate will determine your speed or lack of it.
The Bible wants our dominant factor to be all about love. God is love and wants us to continue in it. Loving means you will be there for your neighbours and extend a hand of love. The Bible states that God sets the solitary in families. God is all about association and belonging because no one can make it out here all alone. So, ask yourself, what kind of relationship are you building? How deep does it go? How solid is the foundation? Love should be our dominant factor because out of it there are so many good things that can come out of it.
Everything you do, let it be done in love. Build the right association, the right community and let love be the mainstay of it. We love because God loves us. God has shown us the template of what love should be. Love isn't influenced by the things you can get. Love is from the heart and what comes from the heart touches the heart. Love should be in our character.
God doesn't deal with us based on who we are, God loves us because of who He is. He can't change Himself...He can't deny Himself or His nature. When we make love our first nature, it comes naturally in us to express patience, forgiveness, love and express the meekness of heart.
Loving someone or your neighbour is a choice. It is a commitment. You choose to love...it has to be from within you. You can't give what you don't have. The lack of love is the expression of the true nature of your heart.
We need to work on our relationship as humans, as a community and even as a Church. Love is an action and not an emotions. You don't just say you love, you need to act it. Love takes continuous effort because the more love you express, the more you get better at it. Love is an habit and it's something you do constantly. It has to come from within.
A friend isn't just someone who comes to bail you out of jail but a true friend is someone who comes in there, bail you out, sits with you and says: "We both messed up".
Thank you for your time.
My pen doesn't bleed, it speaks, with speed and ease.
Still me,
My tongue is like the pen of a ready writer.
Olawalium; (Love's chemical content, in human form). Take a dose today; doctor's order.