Love is the force that shapes our lives beautiful. We search for it in the opposite sex (some of us run from it in the opposite sex). We long for it from our parents and if the start of our lives goes as it should, then we bask in it from birth to death.
Love is that four letter world that we sling around carelessly referring to our favorite car with this word, our favorite clothes, our favorite show, our favorite desert. This one word encompasses for us a range of things--from what we adore to the people that we just cannot live without. Love is what humans live and die for. As quiet as it is kept, love is everything to all of us. It's just, we don't know what it really is. We reach the age where our parent's and family's and friend's love is not enough and we just need more.
So, some of us have sex with whom ever we choose and we call it "making love." And some of us have a chemical response to another's body and utter "I love" that, when I want that or I lust that are more appropriate. We search for it in the air around us and the face every man or woman we meet. We secretly know we really need it and want it, but we don't know how to really have love.
Well, the truest meaning of the word is God. God is Love and since He is, then to have more Love is to have more of Him. It's more than Christians "getting non-Christians saved." It's a woman falling in love with her creator. It's a man taking off the mask and allowing God to create love in his life that changes the course of everything as he has known it. It's about me and you becoming more real than we have ever been before, simply because Love requires our honesty, our nakedness, our longing for the Living God to be central to everything that we are and all that we do, to show us just what He can do with this heart inside this lifetime. To really live and love.
MizJAI
Friday, April 25, 2008
Friday, April 11, 2008
Getting to the Business of Living
"I have these yesterdays that creep into my future. I try to walk in new dreams but I have this old pain that just gets in the way. I seek after new moments but it seems to be the old me when I get there. I'm looking for something new but it never seems to arrive." Have you ever felt like that, as if you were slowly slipping away even though you try to hold on and wait for something to change. What if that something that needs to change is you instead of all the things around you?
Some people have a tendency to wait for someone to save them from their lives. It's that woman again waiting for her knight in shining armor to ride in on his white horse and scoop her up from her boring, underfunded, overspending life. Waiting for him to love her in-spite of her broken heart. Waiting for him to complete her. It's that man waiting to start his real life once he finds a wife. It's that anxious need to be loved and yes rescued from lonely nights. It's that need to find our answers outside of ourselves instead of within. God lives on the inside of the righteous and our answers are where He is. He's in the Word and He reveals the truth about us. So let's get real.
Have you ever been bored and overworked and thought that if you had a (new) mate all would be well? Well, before the singles get all anxious and the couples get to switching partners and start responding to that next person who pays attention to them, listen to what's going on with you. If there was no mate, what would you do to get yourself out of your funk? What would you do to save yourself? How real are you willing to be with you?
Maybe your prince charming wants a woman who knows how to ride alongside him. And believe me, even a capable and whole woman will need to be rescued on a bad day. There is room for romance, but I'm just saying there is room for you to take full responsibility of your life, your joy, your finances, your future and your heart. Stop holding back and waiting before you start your life; write your book, release your album, launch your new business idea, or at least improve on you by learning or doing something new like horse back riding, painting, traveling, singing . . . like worship, Word and fellowship so that God can expose your weaknesses and your strengths and heal what's broken. So that when you find that woman she finds a whole man to love.
Let's get to the business of really living, there is an entire world out there that is big enough for your best dream. You just get yourself ready to walk it out.
MizJAI
Some people have a tendency to wait for someone to save them from their lives. It's that woman again waiting for her knight in shining armor to ride in on his white horse and scoop her up from her boring, underfunded, overspending life. Waiting for him to love her in-spite of her broken heart. Waiting for him to complete her. It's that man waiting to start his real life once he finds a wife. It's that anxious need to be loved and yes rescued from lonely nights. It's that need to find our answers outside of ourselves instead of within. God lives on the inside of the righteous and our answers are where He is. He's in the Word and He reveals the truth about us. So let's get real.
Have you ever been bored and overworked and thought that if you had a (new) mate all would be well? Well, before the singles get all anxious and the couples get to switching partners and start responding to that next person who pays attention to them, listen to what's going on with you. If there was no mate, what would you do to get yourself out of your funk? What would you do to save yourself? How real are you willing to be with you?
Maybe your prince charming wants a woman who knows how to ride alongside him. And believe me, even a capable and whole woman will need to be rescued on a bad day. There is room for romance, but I'm just saying there is room for you to take full responsibility of your life, your joy, your finances, your future and your heart. Stop holding back and waiting before you start your life; write your book, release your album, launch your new business idea, or at least improve on you by learning or doing something new like horse back riding, painting, traveling, singing . . . like worship, Word and fellowship so that God can expose your weaknesses and your strengths and heal what's broken. So that when you find that woman she finds a whole man to love.
Let's get to the business of really living, there is an entire world out there that is big enough for your best dream. You just get yourself ready to walk it out.
MizJAI
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