Good news - love language
How much interaction do we need to connect, with each other and with God?
I know too many who are searching for something that the other cannot deliver or relate to, because part of it is to shut them out. One lady on a forum summarised their relationship with God as secure and they would never trust anyone else, ie. let anyone else near them.
Like a possessive child, they found their safety, and dare anyone else come near. This is the opposite of the good news and freedom, rather it is justifying their own hurts safe in privacy, and limiting the power of love and the cross to this intimacy. The lie is they are free, rather than a prison to hurt and fear, not overcoming and growing in openness but shrinking further into themselves and distrust.
I have learnt the opposite, that I need to share my need of encouragement and joy, to hear others rejoicing in Christ and knowing the grace He gives us all despite the junk thrown, because in His we overcome, the giver of eternal support and love. Yes I fail in so many ways, but it is through knowing Jesus and His ways in my heart I have become an overcomer.
So valuing each other matters, seeing words as insights rather than attacks, as views of our King and His glorious gifts that never stop. Sometimes our enemies are the ones who bring the greatest truths about our biggest needs and failures, which we need to listen to, and which our enemies have no idea they are helping us with.
God bless you
How much interaction do we need to connect, with each other and with God?
I know too many who are searching for something that the other cannot deliver or relate to, because part of it is to shut them out. One lady on a forum summarised their relationship with God as secure and they would never trust anyone else, ie. let anyone else near them.
Like a possessive child, they found their safety, and dare anyone else come near. This is the opposite of the good news and freedom, rather it is justifying their own hurts safe in privacy, and limiting the power of love and the cross to this intimacy. The lie is they are free, rather than a prison to hurt and fear, not overcoming and growing in openness but shrinking further into themselves and distrust.
I have learnt the opposite, that I need to share my need of encouragement and joy, to hear others rejoicing in Christ and knowing the grace He gives us all despite the junk thrown, because in His we overcome, the giver of eternal support and love. Yes I fail in so many ways, but it is through knowing Jesus and His ways in my heart I have become an overcomer.
So valuing each other matters, seeing words as insights rather than attacks, as views of our King and His glorious gifts that never stop. Sometimes our enemies are the ones who bring the greatest truths about our biggest needs and failures, which we need to listen to, and which our enemies have no idea they are helping us with.
God bless you