Impersonal Love

RECIPROCITY

The Macedonians were gentiles, but they "decided with pleasure

[to give]" (Rom. 15:27) to Jews who lived in a distant city, most 

of whom they would never meet. Why were these northern Greeks

so generous to almost total strangers? Their generosity expressed

Impersonal love. Impersonal love emphasizes the character of the

giver, not that of the recipient, whereas personal love focuses on the

attractiveness and virtues of the object of love. Impersonal love is

commanded toward all believers (John 13:35); personal love is 

reserved for special individuals. 

"He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him."
Psalm 126:6

Father, help me not to give up too quickly on those I seek to influence toward the Christian way.
In Christ name I pray