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Teach you how to never be weak again. Awaken your heart to be just like the love in God's heart. Lead you to one of the most freeing experience you can adopt to your relationship with Christ. Teach you how to regain love from and for others that have been lost. Guide you on how to strengthen every relationship in your life. 1 Corinthians 13: 7 AMPC Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening]. I have such a reservation when it comes to loving those who have hurt me. I have resisted relationships because of past hurt. It is God's will that I trust Him wholly with my heart and the love that I show. I have hope in others to believe the best in them, but the recall of memory for how they responded, teaches me, to reserve and discount that hope. Proverbs 13:12 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC) Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire is fulfilled, it is a tree of life. I don't want to give up my barriers to make sure my heart isn't sick, but God is requiring that we let down out defenses and offenses to allow love to show through. You cannot be reserved, or resentful and love. It is one or the other. Even as my two-year old son has shown, he is quick to forgive and doesn't remember the wrong done to him. Even offenses that he has because he was disciplined, he is easy to forgive because he would rather love. It is better for him and for me as a parent to correct and he let go of any offense. The freedom that I found in this was God was giving me permission to hope and not care if I was wronged or got hurt. To not make decisions of my love based on anyone's responses in the past, present, or future. But be free to hope that he means well, even if that isn't what it looks like. To be free to hope that they care for me at a level beyond what it actually is. This isn't an imagination about this person, because in reality, I am not just loving them, I am loving God by loving them. God has an endless, fade-less hope for me. I literally don't have to worry about making sure this person understands how he or she hurt me. I am free to show love regardless. Regardless of any circumstance. Whether they have lied, talked about me in a negative manner, even if they hate me, in any and all circumstances, God gave me permission to hope. Not just a spotlight at the end of the tunnel, but KEEP the same hope that I had when they were in love with me, when they delighted in me, when I was their friend. The hope that they cared for me sincerely, that they still love me, that they are sweet, that they can be trusted. That extent of hope is the hope I can have for them even in times of sorrow and regret. I can still hope and not let one bit fade or die out. This may seem silly to most people, but think about the God we serve. His hope that is fade-less for us seems silly. He loved us when we could have been resented. This is the love He has, and the love we can have. I am going to let God be the one to take my defense from here. He is going to be the one to protect me. But I don't know of one person that can resist the love of God. Not in action, not in display. His love turns hearts. So I will let Him use me by keeping the hope fade-less. I encourage you to take this step of faith with me. To hope without weakening. To love without weakening. To let go of any hurt as if it never happened. Love, Sweet Little Yellow Lemon Girl
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AuthorJasmyne has experienced encounters with God as He shared His intense love for people with Jasmyne. These experiences, although only lasting for a few moments, have made a lasting impression on her. Her view of people has changed and her heart has been opened to how deeply God cares. Jasmyne is now an ordained minister and mother of two children. She is married to Apostle Shane Wall of The Feast of the Lord church. Jasmyne is currently serving at her church and is a local art teacher. Archives
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