The Most Dangerous Game

Don't worry, I have not resorted to hunting other human beings. If you've read the short story "The Most Dangerous Game" then you know that a very wealthy man created a hunting trip to hunt the most dangerous game there is in the world: humans. 

Okay, this started off bad. Let's liven it up a bit and talk about what else could be considered the "most dangerous game"...

Loving other people.

No other action can bring so much joy and happiness but also so much despair and heartache. Loving others affects all of the senses. You physically love people, emotionally invest in them, and spiritually feel for them. I've met people who have a hard time expressing love to others either because of their past or because they can't quantify it. It isn't a thing that can always fit in a box. We like to see or feel love but to describe it, is so hard. 

More often than not we get hurt through loving someone. It tends to serve as a right of passage to love someone else and get hurt in the relationship. We are flawed in nature and can't ever have a perfect loving relationship with another human being. Even when I loved with my whole heart towards Jax, I was not perfect. The only perfect love we can experience is through Christ. There is no hurt, no condemnation, no flaws, no struggle on his love towards us. That doesn't mean we love Him perfectly. But regardless of how we act or love, we will never lose the love of God. 

We should strive to love the way Christ loves us. Without prejudice or condemnation. It is a daily struggle, a dangerous game. But if we continue to love the best we can and be aware that we can do better it no longer becomes a dangerous game but the easiest game of life.