I know it hurts, but you have to give it a chance. Don't allow the enemy to steal or rob you of what could be a gift from the Lord. You'll always wonder if you let it pass you by. What am I talking about? I'm talking about the opportunity to love, to have a real love, something that is so wonderful it makes you feel like that little giddy school girl or boy with their first crush. I'm talking about the love that the Lord speaks about, the unconditional love, agape love.  In christianity it is the highest form of love, the love of God for man, and of man for God. 

Is it possible to have such a love in the natural since? Yes, you can have that unconditional love for your spouse, your children, and in friendships. That type of love, that unconditional love allows you to love people after they have done something to hurt you. Your're able to move past the hurt, forgive them and still show love. That is the type of love that only the holy spirit can give you.

In the book of Hosea the Lord is expressing to us how we have gone after other gods and turned away from him, but he still shows us his love and receives us back. Hosea was directed by God to find a wife of harlotry, and he bore children with her, she also already had children from other men. What the Lord demonstrates is how his people turned from him to go after foreign gods, they forgot all the things they were given and how he set them free. No matter how much pain he felt he still loved them, but he allowed them to go through a few seasons of turmoil to get them to realize he never left them. Sometimes we have to remove ourselves from a situation so that people's eyes can be opened. So the Lord had to show them how it feels to be rejected by the one you show love to, and no matter what he still showed love.

The Lord made so many sacrifices for us and even today we do not appreciate who he is in our lives. So many times we show and give out our love to people who do not deserve it, they step all over us, lie, cheat, verbally abuse, and some of us just lie down and take it humbly, but there are others that will fight back or seek revenge. I'm not talking about them, I'm talking about those of us who truly love past the pain, trying to be everything that the Lord has placed in us, but you just keep getting punched in the gut.

I say to you, don't give up, I know the feeling, I know the tears you've cried, I know the heartache and disappointments, and its from people you least expected. Let me tell you, don't allow satan's schemes to rob you of your joy or who God has made you to be. Exemplify the love of Jesus Christ and you will not go wrong. People will mock you, judge you, and persecute you for the name of Jesus, but I stand for him and make no apologies for it. He has showed me how to love past all the pain I have endured, and still teaches me daily. The biggest thing you can ever achieve is to love someone who has done you wrong, or hurt you to your core. I can honestly say, I have overcome some very toxic situations, the word of the Lord says this: NIV 1 Peter 4:8 Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

Love past the pain you sustained, you forgive as the Lord showed us in Hosea, and allow the Lord to work out every situation, we have to continue doing the will of God, being who he created us to be. 

Hosea 14:9 AMP says Whoever is spiritually wise, let him understand these things; Whoever is spiritually discerning and understanding, let him know them. For the ways of the Lord are right and the righteous will walk in them. But transgressors will stumble and fall in them.

I pray that you will give love a chance, don't put everyone in the same catergory, because you think someone is going to hurt you. Don't ever say what you want do, because you may just find yourself doing that very thing you swore you'd never do again. I gave love a chance once more, and it was the best decision of my life. I learned how to love past my pain.