![]() ![]() Therefore, my life was not built and sustained on the foundation of God’s love for me. I didn’t have the revelation of abiding in the love of God. I didn’t see myself as “the disciple who Jesus loved” (John 13:23). My identity was based on all sorts of things but not on who I was in Christ. I decided there was no point engaging since I was going to fail anyway.įinally, through the Holy Spirit’s leading, it dawned on me that I couldn’t express love in difficult situations because I had not received the love of God for myself. Once God brought someone unloving my way, I subconsciously graded myself as a failure immediately. Although I intended to obey God’s command to love others, I kept yielding to my selfishness and losing my patience with impunity. I failed so many of those love tests that I lost count. ![]() In hindsight, I now know He was training me to exercise my love muscles so that I could grow and mature in love. I simply didn’t “waste” time and emotions on the difficult people in my life.Īfter I became born again, God started plowing my heart and I matriculated into the “University of the God-kind of love.” In His infinite wisdom and patience, God repeatedly positioned me in proximity to people who tripped me up. ![]() Don’t get me wrong, I was good at loving those who loved me back. Walking in love d id not come naturally to me at all. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.” I John 4:16 NKJV “And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. ![]()
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