LOVE
Don’t say you love me, because there is a way to show someone love without ever speaking the words. It still amazes me how love can be known without ever saying it. The words “I love you” mean nothing without some strong actions to back it up.
I don’t know why I’m thinking about love, because I’ve actually become very skeptical of it in my own life. I see that others have found it, but doubt if I will. Ever. I have become comfortable without it, but somehow there is still that glimmer of hope that someday…(I’m not saying nobody loves me…I know there are people that love me…I’m talking about the love between a man and a woman ~ the kind that is so rare ~ the “til’ death do us part” ~ only happens in the movies ~ or in someone else’s life ~ kind of love ~ not the kind that “completes” you, but the kind that makes two separate individuals better together than they are apart from each other ~ the kind that inspires ~ the kind that lights up your face when you see them ~ does it exist? I don’t know if it will in my life, but I didn’t hold out this long just to settle.
Love requires two people to be effective. One-sided love never works. There has to be a giver and a recipient. One person can love another so much, but if that person does not receive it or shuts that person out, the love will not be felt and can have no impact on that person’s life.
This makes me wonder about God’s love. He is the only One who loves us perfectly. He loves us more than we can understand! I still can’t wrap my mind around this concept. He gave His life and conquered the grave so that I can LIVE ETERNALLY. Amazing! I don’t understand it. John 10:10 ~ I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. So, why do I not feel loved by God sometimes? Is it because I am pushing Him away…am I not allowing Him to love me? Can I not accept the fact that He actually loves me even with all my sin, and my faults, and my brokenness? If I am not accepting His love….I am not believing that God’s Word is true! The Bible from cover to cover is a Love Story of God’s love for us. And it doesn’t stop there…look around you. I believe that God wants to show us every day in our lives that He loves us. Open your eyes. Look for it. Let Him show you. Believe it. Know it.
Ephesians 3:17-19 ...And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power...to grasp how WIDE and LONG and DEEP is the LOVE of CHRIST, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge....
Don’t say you love me, because there is a way to show someone love without ever speaking the words. It still amazes me how love can be known without ever saying it. The words “I love you” mean nothing without some strong actions to back it up.
I don’t know why I’m thinking about love, because I’ve actually become very skeptical of it in my own life. I see that others have found it, but doubt if I will. Ever. I have become comfortable without it, but somehow there is still that glimmer of hope that someday…(I’m not saying nobody loves me…I know there are people that love me…I’m talking about the love between a man and a woman ~ the kind that is so rare ~ the “til’ death do us part” ~ only happens in the movies ~ or in someone else’s life ~ kind of love ~ not the kind that “completes” you, but the kind that makes two separate individuals better together than they are apart from each other ~ the kind that inspires ~ the kind that lights up your face when you see them ~ does it exist? I don’t know if it will in my life, but I didn’t hold out this long just to settle.
Love requires two people to be effective. One-sided love never works. There has to be a giver and a recipient. One person can love another so much, but if that person does not receive it or shuts that person out, the love will not be felt and can have no impact on that person’s life.
This makes me wonder about God’s love. He is the only One who loves us perfectly. He loves us more than we can understand! I still can’t wrap my mind around this concept. He gave His life and conquered the grave so that I can LIVE ETERNALLY. Amazing! I don’t understand it. John 10:10 ~ I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. So, why do I not feel loved by God sometimes? Is it because I am pushing Him away…am I not allowing Him to love me? Can I not accept the fact that He actually loves me even with all my sin, and my faults, and my brokenness? If I am not accepting His love….I am not believing that God’s Word is true! The Bible from cover to cover is a Love Story of God’s love for us. And it doesn’t stop there…look around you. I believe that God wants to show us every day in our lives that He loves us. Open your eyes. Look for it. Let Him show you. Believe it. Know it.
Ephesians 3:17-19 ...And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power...to grasp how WIDE and LONG and DEEP is the LOVE of CHRIST, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge....
