To "like" suggests we are motivated by our feelings and that much is easy. To love demands action regardless and in spite of our feelings. That can be difficult indeed.
The commandment is always LOVE never is it LIKE.
I could expound for days, but I will simply leave you to consider the implications in these:
Matthew 22: 36-40 36“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37And he said to him, “You shall LIKE the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38This is the great and first commandment. 39And a second is like it: You shall LIKE your neighbor as yourself. 40On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
John 3:16 For God so LIKED the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life
Think about it.
We aren't always likeable, we are always loveable.
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You know you want to, so say it already...no one's going to be offended.