What does love have to do with it?

Tonight I just have a questions to those of you who bother to respond to blogs.  Not the Tina Turner question, but "Is the love you have for your children (niece, nephew), your husband or wife, your parents, and your friends the same?"  The bible talks about different kinds of love, but we strive for God's unconditional love.  Have you ever examined if you show love differently to the different people in your life? Why do we do that, and is it fair?  Do you think that if we do it is acceptable in God's sight?

But When......

But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared.......

This passage jumped out at me when I was reading Titus 3.  Has kindness ever appeared to you?  Has love ever just appeared?  Has someone's love and kindness toward you ever just surprised you and changed your whole mood or demeaner?  That is what the Lord Jesus can do for you.  His love is amazing.  He is Love....the essense of real love.  The perfect, unfailing love of God is just waiting to transform our love toward one another!

Titus 3:3 For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. 4 But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, 5 not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior

A Quote I saw the other day.......

"Don't be afraid to fall in love with something and pursue it with intensity." - E. Paul Torrance

I saw this quote and said "wow", that is so true.  How often in this life do we fall in love?  Do you know how many people in this world never allow themselves to love, nonetheless, pursue it?  Have you ever been in love with someone or something?  .....and then just "enjoyed it" and "pursued it"?  I have and it is the best thing ever....  No matter the end of it....enjoy it in the "right now". 
Hopefully what you fall in love with and pursue is not harmful and destructive.  That brings us to the ever present need for the One who loves us and pursues us.  He will give us guidance to know what is worth pursuing....if we seek Him for it.  We are to love with the same intensity He loves us with.  This is loving with intensity:

1 Corinthians 13:4-8;13 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails……..

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.