“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then
there is no hurt but only more love.”- Mother Teresa
God
can give us a vision to help us see people the way He sees them.
My prayer taken from Romans 12:9-12
May my love be genuine.
May I stay away from evil and hold fast to what is good. Help me to love every person I meet as I love
my sister. Wait hold up let’s stop there
for a moment. I really love my
sister. We might disagree and she might
say things that make me really angry but at the end of the day I’d still offer
her both my kidneys if she needed them.
If she was the one driving the car that just pulled out in front of me I
wouldn’t even get mad. Wow seriously
love everybody like my sister? Okay moving on…May I not be apathetic in zeal
but passionate in spirit. Lord I desire
to serve you alone with all my soul. May
I rejoice in hope and be patient in times of tribulation. May I always remain in constant prayer. Lead me in contributing to the needs of the
saints and may I always SEEK to show hospitality. Teach me to bless the ones that persecute me
and not curse them. Help me to live in
peace and harmony with those around me.
May I never be conceited and always associate with the lowly. I do not want to repay evil with evil but
instead take time to give thought to what is honorable. I desire to live Peaceably with all. I thank you Father that all vengeance is
yours and I can find peace in that. Help
me to feed my enemy if he is hungry. May
I never be overcome with evil but always overcome evil with good. May I love my wonderful Heavenly Father as
well as those around me with the same overwhelming, abundant, marvelous,
steadfast beautiful love God has shown me.
If I am to love like God loves me then that means that I
don’t need your love to continue loving you.
I don’t need you to be kind to me in order for me to be nice to
you. I don’t need your compliments for
me to provide you with encouragement. I
don’t need you to like me for me to smile at you. God fills my mind with wonder, my heart with
joy and my soul with peace. He dances
over me daily. My Heavenly Father loves
me more than you can even imagine. He’s
the reason I love. I love because He
loves. He loves even you that makes my
life almost unbearable, you that make me so angry I shake, you that make me so
sad I sob and so tired I want to quit.
He still loves you. He is consistent in loving us all at 100 % no matter
how much we screw up or our lives are filled with sin. He is my source of love and therefore through
Him I can love you too. I desire to love as my Father loves. I want it to be evident I am His daughter and
that we share the same DNA. So spit in
my face, talk behind my back and tell me how horrible I am… that’s not going to
stop God from using me to love you. You
will be loved. I will love you. I choose to be nice to you. I shall encourage you. I will speak kindly to you. I am going to show you love. Yeah so a bit of a pep talk is still needed
but no matter what at the end of the day I want to know that I have loved with
all that is within me, that I have poured out all that has been poured in, that
God has used me to the fullest to love His people. I pray to love as I have been loved…
undeserving yet it overwhelmingly covered me!
“Not returning evil for evil or insult for insult but giving a
blessing instead: for you were CALLEd
for the very PURPOSE that you might inherit a BLESSing.”- 1 Peter 3:9
All this came from a dream I had recently about being on
a scavenger hunt. In trying to interpret
it I was reminded that everything God wants from us He gives to us. If He asks me to do something then He’s
willing to supply what I lack. The moon
does not generate its own light but merely reflects the light of the sun in the
night sky. We aren’t able to shine in
the darkness or love even our enemies we just act like the moon reflecting
God’s love for us off to those standing by.
We have to look for Jesus in people around us. I know the only thing that is good in me is
Jesus and the same is true for all around me.
God has sent us on a treasure hunt to find out what He has implanted in
people. God has given us all gifts and
if you tough it out with that person so difficult to be around you just might
find God will use that gift He has given them to bless your life as well. Happy hunting!
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