Loving in the Mundane

We've realized much in the few months that we have lived in China. One of them being how to love. Now we haven't got it all figured out, but feel like many of the Truths laid out for us make more sense today than they did yesterday. Why? Because first of all He loved us first. That alone should drive us to respond in love towards others. If He's going to entrust us with much, then first He will entrust us with little. What is being entrusted with a little? It's loving the store clerk, the water man, the fruit seller at the market. It's serving the janitors, our families, our friends. If we cannot be trusted to love in this way, He will never trust us with the bigger things of Him.

So many times we see loving others as a burden. Usually it's because we're too busy looking at ourselves and our own needs to notice that others are in need.