Love and Liars

Constant reminders of how to love people have been echoing throughout my life the past couple of weeks.
Here is something I came across today:

"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails. What a man desires is unfailing love; better to be poor than a liar." ~Proverbs 19:21-22

In other words, even though we may think we have life all planned out, God is still in control and may ask us to drop everything on the itinerary and become homeless, adoptive parents, or something else we weren't quite expecting. We, as human beings, are created to love and  to be loved. ("The greatest thing is just to love and be loved in return!!!" ~Moulin Rouge, gotta love it ;) and it's so true.) This is why, after many broken relationships, the human race still longs for more. We desire a love that is unconditional and that will stick around forever.

Then I came to the part of Proverbs 19:22 that says, "better to be poor than a liar." My thoughts wandered to the following:

"If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And He has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother." 1 John 4:20-21

This is what that means to me: It is better to give up everything you have for the love of your brother (or sister) than to "be a liar" and just walk on past those in need. Those that are in need of not just material possessions, but of love. Also, brother/sister does not just refer to our blood relation, but to the human race. We must learn to treat everyone as if they were our family. We are all God's creation and His creation is beautiful. We are all beautiful and desire a deep love that no else can give us. God is the only one up for that job.

Just a short thought I had for the day :) Love God, love people. Pretty simple, right?

Elaina