I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, 2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. 3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: 4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; 5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. (Romans 9:1-5)
Paul has so great a burden for his own Israelite people that he would be willing to give up his own salvation for them.
Here is a love that I have trouble relating to.
Despite Paul's "burden" he was not called by God to work among these people, but rather to reach the Gentiles.
Sometimes the people we love most are the hardest to reach, the hardest to be patient with and persuade. Reach out to somebody else's loved one, and pray that somebody will reach yours.
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