Warren Buffett's Advice

A video clip asking Warren Buffett what the most important advice he had ever received was on Yahoo News this morning. The unusual thing about his answer is that it is not about finances, but about how to live your life. Here is his answer: "The power of unconditional love. I mean, there is no power on earth like unconditional love. And I think that if you offered that to your child, I mean, you’re 90 percent of the way home. There may be days when you don’t feel like it — it’s not uncritical love; that’s a different animal — but to know you can always come back, that is huge in life. That takes you a long, long way. And I would say that every parent out there that can extend that to their child at an early age, it’s going to make for a better human being." Mr. Buffett also went on to say that it was not just with words that his father taught him this concept, but by example.

Although I know that I am not on the same level as Mr. Buffett, I would like to add a bit to his answer. The only way that we can live or understand unconditional love is through Jesus Christ, the only true embodiment of that type of love. In fact the Bible says that God is love and that we love because He first loved us. (1 John 4:16, 19)God loves us no matter what we have done and will always welcome us into His fellowship, just like the father did with the prodigal son.

Unconditional means total, absolute, unrestricted. It does not mean that you will love if that person does what you want them to do, or gives you what you think you must have, or says what you think they should. It means you choose to love them—no matter what. We can only love like that through Christ in us. Who do you need to love unconditionally today?

1 John 3:16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
(That sounds like unconditional love to me…what do you think?)

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