Take a Skittle Reading

Teens know a lot more about people than we give them credit for. My daughter was telling me yesterday, for instance, that if you want to know how much people truly like you, approach them when they have a bag of Skittles. If they don't readily offer to fork over a Skittle or two, no real love there. If they offer, but they're the kind of friends who pour them into their own hand first, then pick you out a yellow or a green one, still pretty surfacey, wimpy kind of love. If it's a real, genuine, unselfish love, they'll give you a handful. And not just any random handful. No, they'll make sure you get plenty of reds and purples. That's love, man.
Our goal should be to love people in the biggest taste of the rainbow. Unselfishly. All the way to the reds and purples. 1 Peter 3:8-9 gives us instruction in the red and purple life when it says, "Finally, all of you should be of one mind, full of sympathy toward each other, loving one another with tender hearts and humble minds. Don't repay evil for evil. Don't retaliate when people say unkind things about you. Instead, pay them back with a blessing. That is what God wants you to do, and he will bless you for it" (NLT).
When we show that mature kind of love to each other, God blesses us. And I wouldn't be one bit surprised to find out it makes him smile. That can make us smile, too.
With all that smiling, by the way, you'll probably want to make sure you don't have anything red or purple stuck in your teeth.

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