Impersonal love is a different type of love. Problem-solving device #8. It’s you loving an unlovable person. Didn’t God do that for you? God loves you based on who He is, not on who you are. “This is My mandate that you love one another, as I loved you” (John 15:12). Love is something that is learned. It’s not natural. “Let brotherly love continue” (Heb 13:1). The emphasis is on the virtue of the lover not the virtue of the receiver. Personal love is reserved for God. Impersonal love doesn’t work unless it’s motivated by personal love for God. Your two biggest enemies are arrogance and emotions.”If someone says I love God and he hates his fellow man he is a liar” (1 John 4:20). Emotions react. Forgiveness responds. Impersonal love is a great problem-solving device because it takes the monkey off your back. You don’t have to love obnoxious jerks. You just have to forgive them! “Father forgive them for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34). You love them because God loves you.

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