
Have you ever read something
hundreds of times,
and have heard the something
hundreds of times,
and then you read it
or hear it
another time,
and it is like it is the very first time~
because it pierces your heart so deeply
that you wonder if your heart every heard the words before.
I just did.
Read the following WORDS so slowly,
as if it is the only thing you will read today.
"LOVE
is
PATIENT.
LOVE
is
KIND.
LOVE
isn't
JEALOUS.
It
DOESN'T
sing
its
own
praises.
It
ISN'T
ARROGANT.
It
ISN'T
RUDE.
It
DOESN'T
THINK
about
ITSELF.
It
ISN'T
IRRITABLE
It
DOESN'T
KEEP
track
of
WRONGS"
(I Corinthians 13:4-5).
I don't know why,
but tears fill my being
just writing these
WORDS of TRUTH.
The WORDS that stand out are
DOESN'T and ISN'T.
OUCH!
Don't you feel it?
LOVE IS
all gushy and mushy and feels so good,
but the
DOESN'T and ISN'T
parts of
LOVE
DO NOT feel so good,
and
AREN'T
so mushy and gushy
when you realize that
you have been
ARROGANT,
RUDE,
PRIDEFUL,
IRRITABLE,
and
RECORDING ALL WRONGS.
OUCH!
Maybe you haven't felt like this,
but wow how I see the
PLANK in my eyes,
when I judge others
of having these traits,
when I am the one who has them.
OUCH!
When I read these WORDS this morning,
it was as if
GOD GRACIOUSLY
reached down
into my HEART,
to
remind me
with HIS WORDS,
to
once again
GIVE HIM my ALL
because
HE wants my ALL
because
HE wants to GIVE me HIS ALL.
A personal invitation to
LOVE others more,
when you
take to
HEART
the WORDS of
JESUS~
"You shall
LOVE the LORD your GOD
with ALL your HEART,
with ALL your SOUL,
and
with ALL your MIND"
(Matthew 22:37).
And when you do
LOVE GOD with your ALL,
how can you possibly
NOT be
PATIENT,
KIND,
NOT JEALOUS,
NOT PRIDEFUL,
NOT ARROGANT,
NOT RUDE,
NOT PRIDEFUL,
NOT IRRITABLE,
and
NOT becoming a tape recorder
that
RECORDS ALL WRONGS
to play over and over again.
I was holding out on
LOVING GOD
with my ALL.
but because
GOD SO LOVES
HE gently reminded me that
even though I know I feel like
I LOVE HIM and JESUS with my ALL,
it is a morning like this
when
HIS WORDS become like an arrow
that strike my HEART in a space
where
HE is LOVING me with such
PATIENCE
and
KINDNESS,
because
HE wants my ALL
so that HE becomes my ALL.
For GOD so LOVES,
that HE never stops
LOVING
me & you & everyone else,
with
HIS WORD
that is so ALIVE and WELL,
that it makes us live
ALIVE and WELL
because
"GOD means what HE says.
What HE says goes.
HIS powerful WORD is sharp as a surgeon’s scalpel,
cutting through everything,
whether doubt or defense,
laying us open to listen and obey.
Nothing and no one can resist GOD'S WORD.
We can’t get away from it~
no matter what"
(Hebrews 4:12-13).
What a GLORIOUS morning
to be so
GRACED by GOD,
because
HIS
"LOVE WILL NEVER FAIL"
(listen to the song below)
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