Walking in l <3 ve

Have you ever tried walking down a gravel road with out your shoes and socks on? Or how about walking with wet socks in wet shoes after riding a water ride at Kings Island at 11 o'clock in the morning and you weren't going to leave the park until 8 o'clock that night. That was the worst! Oh the blisters...and your feet smell so bad by the end of the day.

There are times when walking in love seems the same as walking up a volcano wearing flip flops. The Bible didn't say that it would be easy. Look at Ephesians 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling aroma. So God's Word tells us that it is a sacrifice to walk in love. What is a sacrifice? It's giving up something for sake of the cause. What would happen if we would choose to sacrifice our feelings and decide to walk in love when we really don't feel like it? For one, I believe the divorce rate would be down. I also believe there would be more salvation's and more people staying hooked in to church. Instead we choose to take the easy road, we choose to say rude things and to act out in a hateful manner to our spouses, our co-workers, our friends. We simply give in.

At the end of Ephesians 5:2 He says that if we walk in love that we will smell really good to God. I believe we will smell really good to everyone when we walk the love walk. Don't you just hate how you feel after you've showed yourself in front of someone? Oh, I despise the way I feel when I say hurtful words to my husband in the midst of a disagreement. If I would've chosen to sacrifice my feelings, my initial thoughts; then I would've caused the situation to have a better outcome.

I have always had to watch my words. It seems like crazy comments would slip out of my mouth before I would even realize it! I once told a boy in the fifth grade that when he grew up that he would end up big and bald just like his father. What a terrible thing to say to someone. I know what your are thinking, that kids say crazy things all of the time. This is true. But, adults say crazy words as well, and most of the time it's been thought out. We do it and then we do nothing about it.

Christ walked the ultimate love walk, he was bruised, beaten and scorned. He was nailed on a cross to die for all man-kind. And the most amazing thing about it was he forgave us all. He chose to sacrifice his flesh and to walk in love. He gave His life for ours. (The ultimate love walk!)

Luke 23:34 Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."