Today I was searching for inspiration, I like to write my blogs on topics that are important to me and that I feel need to be heard or I have struggles with myself. I like to write posts that just might make a difference for my readers in some shape or form. Tonight as I began my devotions , I ran across a verse that touched me and also reminded me of something that I need to work on in my life. Luke 6:26-27 says that " But to you who are willing to listen, I say love your enemies! Do good to those who hate you. Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who hurt you." We all have people in our lives whom have hurt us, maybe some of us more than others but we all have them. When we get hurt by a person, our human instinct is to push them away and shut them out, either for a time or completely. What if instead of shutting these people out, we drew them closer? I'm not saying put yourself back in a position to get hurt but instead of pushing them away draw them closer, not into your arms but into Gods arms. Maybe instead of leaving them, we should be leading them. Leading them to the open arms of our one true king. We cant change people ,a s much as we think we can, we cant. God can however and if we are blessed enough to be given the opportunity to help with his plan for someone else's life or help him show someone else the light shouldn't we take it?? What if we listened to Luke 6 and we loved our enemies, how many hearts could we change for Gods greater good? What if we tried blessing those who have cursed us instead of wishing bad things upon them or getting angry like our human nature tells us to, how many people could we reach that way? And what if we prayed for those who have hurt us? What if instead of trying to forget about them, we put them at the center of our conversations with God and gave our pain and our hurt and our scars to him? What if we let him heal us and in the process maybe let a new Christian life be born as he uses us to reach them? God wants to reach out and share his love with everyone and he wants us, he needs us to help him do it. We just have to be willing to give up our pride and our pain and lay it down at his feet. We need to be willing to give God our lives and in return he will make our lives whole and also fill in the holes of the lives around us as he uses us to reach out to them.So today I ask you, will you love your enemies? Will you bless those who curse you? Will you pray for those who hurt you? And will you give it all to Jesus, your entire life and all the scars that come with it so that he may begin to heal you and the people you come in contact with along the way? We could start a revolution so who's with me? Who is ready to join Gods army?
Often times when you think about "love", where does your mind go? For some of us it might be the love shared between a couple or a family, friends etc. Rarely however do we think about ourselves. The world can feel like its spinning a million miles an hour, I know mine is. We spend so much time making sure everyone else is okay that we often times neglect ourselves. We love everyone and try to make sure they know that, but what about making sure we know we love ourselves? That were happy with who we are? You may be thinking I've gone crazy right now trying to tell you to love yourself lol. I'm serious though, we are our biggest critics and I feel like we spend so much time critiquing ourselves that we forget to be happy with who we are. We tend to excuse mistakes of ones we care about, as we should but then we dwell on our own mistakes and let them tear us apart. We need to show ourselves the compassion we show others and we need to be comfortable with who we are as ...
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