Translations:TC 8: How to Love by Faith/22/en

We cannot love in our own strength. We often refuse to love unlovely people. It is easier to love the “beautiful” people. Or to love those who are good to us, and those who appreciate what we do for them. Why love anyone who is unattractive, or peculiar, or grouchy or disagreeable? Or why even try to love those who just don’t love us? First, because God says we must. Second, He provides the strength to obey His every command. In ourselves we have neither the power nor the motivation to love the unlovely, and the Bible explains why: “The old sinful nature within us is against God. It never did obey God’s laws, and it never will” (Romans 8:7, TLB).