"There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is hell."
- CS Lewis
To love is to be willing to face pain. We are beings created to love and to be loved.
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
No fear
"There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love." 1 John 4:18
I often underestimate the presence of fear is in my struggles. I usually find myself making decisions based on fear and I end up regretting. Thankfully God has been showing me that I don't have to be held hostage by fears. He enables us to have freedom over our fears and insecurities when we dwell in Him. God is love and He is always with us in all circumstances.
I often underestimate the presence of fear is in my struggles. I usually find myself making decisions based on fear and I end up regretting. Thankfully God has been showing me that I don't have to be held hostage by fears. He enables us to have freedom over our fears and insecurities when we dwell in Him. God is love and He is always with us in all circumstances.
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Identity
A profound thought on identity...
Beware of seeing yourself through other people's eyes. There are several dangers to this practice. First of all, it is nearly impossible to discern what others actually think of you. Moreover, their views of you are variable: subject to each viewer's spiritual, emotional, and physical condition. The major problem with letting others define you is that it borders on idolatry. Your concern to please others dampens your desire to please Me, your Creator.
It is much more real to see yourself through My eyes. My gaze upon you is stead and sure, untainted by sin. Through My eyes you can see yourself as one who is deeply, eternally loved. Rest in My loving gaze, and you will receive deep Peace. Respond to my loving Presence by worshiping Me in spirit and in truth.
Beware of seeing yourself through other people's eyes. There are several dangers to this practice. First of all, it is nearly impossible to discern what others actually think of you. Moreover, their views of you are variable: subject to each viewer's spiritual, emotional, and physical condition. The major problem with letting others define you is that it borders on idolatry. Your concern to please others dampens your desire to please Me, your Creator.
It is much more real to see yourself through My eyes. My gaze upon you is stead and sure, untainted by sin. Through My eyes you can see yourself as one who is deeply, eternally loved. Rest in My loving gaze, and you will receive deep Peace. Respond to my loving Presence by worshiping Me in spirit and in truth.
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