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of God I know that all the twisted ideas have been replaced by the agape love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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