God's Love
John 4:34 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work." Malcolm Smith said, God's love feeds us as we give it away. We understand and receive God's love, we are blessed, we give the same love to others---all at the same time. This only happens if we believe that God's Spirit of love is in us. When God enables us to love those who are hard to love, that's when we learn the depth of God's love. It makes me think of when Corrie ten Boom forgave a man who had been a guard at the concentration camp where she had been a prisoner, where her sister had died. It was very hard for her, but she prayed that the Lord would help her, and she thrust her hand out to his hand stretched out to her. And she was filled with the love of God.
When we look at it this way, loving others becomes not an exhausting, draining thing, but a way to experience God's life and love.
The Sacred Romance
This is a great book by John Eldredge and Brent Curtis. I am reading it for the second time. Here is a quote: "God created us for intimacy with Him....What He is after is us--our laughter, our tears, our dreams, our fears, our heart of hearts....How few of us truly believe this. We've never been wanted for our heart, our truest self, not really, not for long. The thought that God wants our heart seems too good to be true."
"Listen to the names He has given us: 'No longer will they call you Deserted...They will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of the Lord; and you will be called Sought After' (Isaiah 62:4, 12)."
Thank You Lord.
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