Does your love have a context?

Let me be completely honest here. 

When I travel around the world, to Pakistan or Africa or elsewhere, it’s so easy for me to embrace people. I practically jump into the crowd just to be with them. 

The warnings about viruses or germs in different countries have never bothered me at all. Even though my body might not be used to the environment there and can get sick more easily, I don’t think about it—it’s my calling to go! 😄 But here, at home, when I’m sitting on a crowded bus, people “contributing” their different habits, talking loudly, behaving “differently”… I notice how quickly I can get annoyed inside.

And that’s where I have to admit that, apparently, my love has a context.

And this is where I want to begin today. Because I often hear: “Oh man, I’d love to travel to Africa with you and do something good!”

And the striking truth is this: it’s easier to love “far away” than to place that same love right where we are.

Far away, love feels easy. Close to home, it challenges us.

Far away, love feels big—like calling, purpose, devotion.

We even expect differences and mentally prepare for them.

But here?

Here, I expect everyone to be like me. Here, I just want peace. Control. Normality.

And that’s exactly the point. Because Paul clearly says: “Do everything in love.” (1 Corinthians 16:14)

In what? Exactly: In EVERYTHING and toward EVERYONE—we are called to give love! ❤️

And I want to live that out much more intentionally. What about you?

Where will you choose today to be led not by yourself, but by love?

You are a miracle!