A FRIEND LOVES AT ALL TIMES
"My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. This is my command: Love each other. " John 15:12-17 I have yet to read anywhere in God's word where He says that it is an easy thing to love. Love hurts. It is a good kind of hurt. The kind of hurt or pain that purifies and tries the heart for all it is worth. God's kind of love is strong love. It does not give up, it does not walk away, it does not keep record of our faults or disregard us because of our imperfections or brokenness. It e