So what happens when we KNOW each other? We can do “cute” things like finish each other’s sentences, read each other minds and buy that perfect gift for each other’s birthdays. But even more profoundly, we can be there for each other when life is not a bowl of cherries.
- When we can love each other according to God’s plan, that opens us up to the redeeming and miraculous power of God’s affection.
- Days of sadness will be a little less sad because we can be there to help wipe away those tears.
- Times of loneliness will be a little less lonely because we can show up to help chase the blues away.
- Satan will be less likely to bum rush us gangsta style because we will be there to cover each other’s back.
- After the love is gone or when the boss acts like he or she has lost his or her mind or when one of us has to deal with a bad hair day or the money is running short of a very long month, we will both have something to laugh about because of the support and companionship we share.
I guess God knew what He was doing when He commanded us to love each other. By allowing you to know me and me to know you, we have a relationship that could only be thought of and nurtured by our Heavenly Father. The effort to really becoming acquainted with each other was well worth the effort.
Thank God for the commandment to love and thank Him too for the good sense that led us to choose to get to really know each other!
Tomorrow’s Post: Do We Know Who God Is?
2 comments:
I have a better understanding of what is happening with this "Love" thing and knowing. As you stated in an earlier blog, there are several versions of love. But we are talking about God's definition. It's not romantic, agape and so on. It's the love you have for others in spite of.
This is a love that you have to develope in order to want to know others and be there for their needs.
I don't know if I am selfish or what. I like my space, but that doesn't mean I don't have that love or want to know others and their needs.
I enjoy being around people when I want to be around people.
When anyone is in need, I'll be there when asked. Or should I be there even before I am asked?
We have our neighbors, co-workers, church family, blood family and intimate friends and associates. That is my circle.
I love each of them in a special way. Some more than the other.
And I really don't know them the way that I should.
I guess I've some work to do.
Have a blessed day and keep the words flowing.
Someone is being blessed by them.
L
Mr. Writer,
Thank you for defining the way we should know and love one another…without any expectations or reservations, just simply love one another.
Truly the struggle and short comings are within me that prohibit me from reaching the point of “Love thy neighbor as thyself”. Just knowing that once I reach the point of truly wanting someone to know ME in a God sense then the chains and ties will come off. I will be able to enjoy doing “cute” things…but more than anything I will be truly free and loving the way the Lord intents for me to.
I do understand, the love Jesus wants us to have for one another. My hands are clean and my heart is pure as I pray for my neighbors; I pray for their for protection and no harm will come upon them and they will prosper but perhaps that is not good enough…therefore I ask the Lord to search my heart and if anything is not of him take it away…I want nothing to hinder me from loving “one another” according to God’s plan.
Part of loving someone is placing them in your heart and on your mind without judging but by simply praying for one another; which I hope you will do for me…more than we all know we need each other. We can never make the mistake to think our meeting here is just purely by accident but by assignment…
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