What Does Love Look Like

I am learning more and more how life is all about love. There are days when I am so tired and I feel like I have to "think about it" to be loving and patient and joyful. But I don't want it to live that way because it wasn't meant to be. Jesus made me to be overflowing all the time with his love. Just knowing Jesus, love just flows from Him. He IS love. He can't help but love. So, the more I hang around Jesus, catch His fragrance, just experience how amazing He is, the more I naturally, quickly, easily love people because I want to be like the one I love. I want those days when I have to "think" about being loving become so few and then completely disappear in my life. Every day, living a life of passionate love Jesus.
What does it look like to give everything to Jesus? What does fully surrendered look like? What do laid down lovers look like? Jesus is the only one who truly satisfies. The more of Him I get, the less I want of anything else.
I have also been thinking about how when we call out the gold in people and treat them like royalty, it raises the standard of how they should treat themselves, and how others treat them. If someone has been treated poorly their whole life, so THEY treat them self poorly, so OTHERS have sympathy and apathy towards them and treat them poorly, it totally messes everyone up when someone says, "Hey beautiful, how are you? I care about you. Come, be my friend. I like you. I want you. I think you're amazing. No, I'm not just saying that. Here, let's hang out sometime. I just want to love you. I just want to show you that you are important and you matter, that you have a special purpose and Jesus loves you." I'm telling you, THAT is how to rock someone's world. That is how to make a difference, to tell someone who they really are: loved, adored, beautiful, special, wanted, longed for, a princess, a prince, a son, a daughter, someone just loved by their Daddy in Heaven.

It's about letting Jesus be love through me. But even better, in the context of his and my relationship. It's like, the key to His heart is mine, and visa versa. That exchange is what releases love onto people in a powerful way. And it's all intentional. It's a mission, it's a purpose, it's what I have died to live for.

Thoughts for now....