Saturday, February 14, 2015

God's Love a healing Love

     My daily reading for today was focusing on love primarily God’s love. I assume that this is because today is Valentine’s Day.  I was hit by something that someone had said to me. “You make it hard for anyone to love you.” Even though that has not been said to me in a long time, the words still hurt. They did enough damage that some part of me believes that it is true. That person was not just saying they had a hard time loving me but that anyone would have a hard time loving me. Perhaps it was there way of justifying how they felt to include everyone. Nonetheless, I believed it I believed for so many reasons. I remember when I was in second grade I was not yet adopted but in foster care with my soon to be adopted parents. I cannot recall how the subject was brought up but one of my classmates said” Your real parents do not love you if they gave you up. They don’t love you”  I remember my stepfather telling me that if I wanted anyone to love me I had to do certain things that grown-ups do for each other because that is what love is.  Those are just a few of the twisted statements about love that damaged my idea of the meaning of love up until the past four years.  
    1 Corinthians 13:4-8 4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.
Love is: Patient, kind, rejoices in truth, bears up under all problems, trusts, hopes understands the faults of others, never fails it perseveres
Love isn’t envious, proud, boastful, inappropriate, rude selfish, short-tempered, evil, accepting of sin
Love is not just a word we say, but also an attitude that we have towards others.

 I have love an over flowing endless supply of love. A love that heals the damage, I am an adopted child of my Abba Father. He loves me He loved me first and all I have to do is say “Yes” to the love and run freely into His embrace.  Because I understand and I can feel the love of God I know that all the twisted ideas have been replaced by the agape love from my creator. I can love God I can love others and I can love who I am as a new creation in Christ.

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