When going through a bit of a rough patch, one of those overwhelmed moments, one of those times where it feels like the whole demonic force is out to get you, I cried out to God "What do we do?"
I was crying out for direction, provision, for peace and you know what I heard him say in response, "Love me." Wow, two simple words that did not answer any of my questions but that did bring the simple realities back into perspective.
So I got to thinking about love, about what it means to love and to be loved. It's pretty clear in the bible that this is one of the fundamentals of our faith and that without it everything else is meaningless. So I decided that it was time to focus on loving God. Time to stop the focus being on me/us and just get back to the basics of love. To stop trying to work everything out and just to love God.
So as happens, soon after this I hear an online sermon on love, get sent a blog from a good friend and all I could see in it was love. Love, love, love. Now this is not a startling new revelation for me but I think I had sort of lost it along the way. Not that I didn't love but it was not my focus.
Without love everything we do is futile.
Luke 10:27 "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"
So there it is, plain and simple. Love God, love others and love yourself. One preacher said that we need to learn to love ourselves because we can't love others beyond what we love ourselves, interesting thought.
I was crying out for direction, provision, for peace and you know what I heard him say in response, "Love me." Wow, two simple words that did not answer any of my questions but that did bring the simple realities back into perspective.
So I got to thinking about love, about what it means to love and to be loved. It's pretty clear in the bible that this is one of the fundamentals of our faith and that without it everything else is meaningless. So I decided that it was time to focus on loving God. Time to stop the focus being on me/us and just get back to the basics of love. To stop trying to work everything out and just to love God.
So as happens, soon after this I hear an online sermon on love, get sent a blog from a good friend and all I could see in it was love. Love, love, love. Now this is not a startling new revelation for me but I think I had sort of lost it along the way. Not that I didn't love but it was not my focus.
Without love everything we do is futile.
Luke 10:27 "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"
So there it is, plain and simple. Love God, love others and love yourself. One preacher said that we need to learn to love ourselves because we can't love others beyond what we love ourselves, interesting thought.
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