Love Mentality

When disagreements, bad attitudes, or overwhelming circumstances arise, pause and reflect on your stance in the love of Christ before throwing stones. From that place of love, seek to gently point others back to Him.

Life can feel like a constant cycle of tasks, priorities, and responsibilities. The daily routine often becomes dull or even meaningless. To cope, we tell ourselves, “It’s almost Friday” or “My next vacation is coming!”—but in reality, we’re often just running from our problems and taking our eyes off Christ. That mindset can make us short-tempered, restless, and selfish. Remember, tomorrow is not promised—but Christ’s return is.

If you find yourself struggling with frustration, weariness, or a hardened attitude, take heart—you don’t have to stay stuck there. Through the help of the Holy Spirit, you have the choice and power to change. God will not leave you in the same place if you allow Him to grow you.

That kind of growth begins with reflection. Ask yourself: Where am I in the love of Christ? If you have accepted Him as Lord, turned from your old ways, and invited Him into your heart, then the Holy Spirit dwells within you—and you have become a new creation in Christ.

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come"

2 Corinthians 5:17 (ESV)

If the Holy Spirit is living in you, then you have been made new. You belong to Christ and He has given you a new life. This isn't something that you secretly keep to yourself with no outward change. You have to allow Him to work through you and help you grow.

Growth often means getting uncomfortable, pushing yourself out of your comfort zone, doing the things you don't want to do. But it’s in those moments of discomfort that you’ll see Him working most powerfully in your life.

James tells us "So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead". This does not mean that you have to work your way to heaven. Salvation is a free gift given from Christ when He died and rose again, but this means that we are indebted to Christ for giving us new life and we should desire to serve Him and do all that He asks us to do, not out of obligation but out of LOVE which is the firstfruit of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23)

"Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (ESV)

Paul reminds us in his letter to the church of Corinth that love is not an emotion or feeling, it's a choice. Verses 1-3 of this passage speak an even bigger message on love, Paul tells us that no matter what possessions you have or how much you serve or how much faith you have, it all means absolutely nothing without LOVE.

When we are facing the struggles of stale routines, difficult circumstances, loss, pain, grief, or any other battle, we have a choice. We can choose to remind ourselves of the blessings God has given us and serve Him by loving others as He has commanded or we can choose to fall into our old habits.

So what will you do? Speak life? Get uncomfortable? Or live unchanged?