we are safe in love
Every child needs to be loved.
They need to know that someone loves and genuinely cares about them.
This gives them a safe environment to explore their world and themselves.
It gives them a safe place to grow in.
There was a time when I felt that I was not loved at all.
I felt that NOBODY love me at all, and I didn't love myself very much too.
That was the most horrible period.
But today, I know very clearly that I am loved.
At least, a few faces would pop out in my head whenever I think about those who love me.
And this helps.
It helps through difficult times when we feel so tired to move on, or when we feel that it is meaningless to move on.
It helps when one is not feeling too good about oneself.
During these times, I would think,
what good do they actually see in me?
Perhaps, there is really some good in each of us.
It's just that we are too discouraged to see them.
Or perhaps, the truth really is, there is nothing so good about us at all.
Yet, these people who love me still continue to love me.
They make me feel safe and comfortable to be myself.
But at the same time, motivated to grow to be a better person.
And these are also the ones who seem to be "always there", never leaving your side at all.
God make me feel this way too. (:
“For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples; but because the LORD loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. (Deuteronomy 7:6-8)
God knows that we all need a safe environment in order to grow. Which is why the Church is established in love. We then can grow together spiritually, knowing that we are safe to do so because we love and accept each other unconditionally. How can we grow if we are always living in fear or suspicion?
One way that has helped me greatly is the thought that the same Holy Spirit is living in each one of us, and is moving each of us from within. Therefore, how can the Holy Spirit contradicts Himself? As long as we yield to the moving of the Holy Spirit, all of us should be heading for the same goal and direction.
Do you feel safe in the Church today?
If you do, are you growing?
:>
but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love. (Ephesians 4:15-16)
They need to know that someone loves and genuinely cares about them.
This gives them a safe environment to explore their world and themselves.
It gives them a safe place to grow in.
There was a time when I felt that I was not loved at all.
I felt that NOBODY love me at all, and I didn't love myself very much too.
That was the most horrible period.
But today, I know very clearly that I am loved.
At least, a few faces would pop out in my head whenever I think about those who love me.
And this helps.
It helps through difficult times when we feel so tired to move on, or when we feel that it is meaningless to move on.
It helps when one is not feeling too good about oneself.
During these times, I would think,
what good do they actually see in me?
Perhaps, there is really some good in each of us.
It's just that we are too discouraged to see them.
Or perhaps, the truth really is, there is nothing so good about us at all.
Yet, these people who love me still continue to love me.
They make me feel safe and comfortable to be myself.
But at the same time, motivated to grow to be a better person.
And these are also the ones who seem to be "always there", never leaving your side at all.
God make me feel this way too. (:
“For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples; but because the LORD loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. (Deuteronomy 7:6-8)
God knows that we all need a safe environment in order to grow. Which is why the Church is established in love. We then can grow together spiritually, knowing that we are safe to do so because we love and accept each other unconditionally. How can we grow if we are always living in fear or suspicion?
One way that has helped me greatly is the thought that the same Holy Spirit is living in each one of us, and is moving each of us from within. Therefore, how can the Holy Spirit contradicts Himself? As long as we yield to the moving of the Holy Spirit, all of us should be heading for the same goal and direction.
Do you feel safe in the Church today?
If you do, are you growing?
:>
but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love. (Ephesians 4:15-16)
