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I was at the beach one day with my friend a few weeks ago and he randomly said, "Sometimes I think I'm too helpful." I didn't understand what he meant, but he explained later on. He's been asked to help and give advice to individual after individual, and sometimes he gets frustrated with one individual, and that anger gets transferred to the next conversation he has. As a result, his advice and response is blunt, hard and sometimes, without love.
Sometimes we may have good intentions, yes, but it may come off as intrusive, smothering, manipulative, controlling and bothersome. I know I'm in that situation right now. There's a girl, and two guys that were planning to ask her to prom (and they're all friends with each other). One did a promposal and the girl accepted, but then later on changed her mind, and since I'm friends with all three of them and I helped him with it, they all come to me. I'm trying not to play sides, but be a mediator, but I have said some things, and my good intentions were eventually replaced with a big mix-up.
"Love never fails." [1 Corinthians 13:8]
No matter what happens, we must remember that love, no strings attached, will never fail. We must be able to love freely, and ask God to help us. Whenever we help someone, there will be anxiety, but our motives must be pure and for their good, not our own.
Love
- is patient
- is kind
- does not envy
- does not boast
- is not proud
- is not rude
- is not self-seeking
- is not easily angered
- keeps no record of wrongs
- does not delight in evil
- rejoices in the truth
- always protects
- always trusts
- always perseveres
- never fail
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In our desire to help, let’s love with pure motives.
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