Have you ever felt that you were giving so much of your heart to someone...that you felt like you wanted that person to also commit to you the same way you are committing to him/her?
The first part should not really be a problem because when you love someone (even if he/she is only a friend) should be unconditional and sincere. As Christians, we should love as Christ loves. The second part is the problem when you are now beginning to expect something in return of that love that you are so lavishly giving.
Things then start to change between you and the person. You now sense that you need to hold back things from the person... to limit yourself from giving because you feel unappreciated and not valued... you are hurt.
Unfair! Or is it?
Where are you getting that love? If we are getting that love ONLY from within us, it will soon dry up and will have nothing to produce. And instead of giving, we are taking from people we love...
If your problem is the second part, then you are the problem...
We may want to stop for a while and examine the center of our loving. We must redirect our hearts to Christ who loves us unconditionally and confess how incapable we are of loving the same way He did. We must ask for His help to teach us to love unconditionally. Only through that can we be satisfied in loving and reaching out to others. We will do it even for a greater cause - which is for the glory of God. That Christ will be magnified in our loving others.
