i am loved???
“And He replied to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind (intellect). This is the great (most important, principal) and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as [you do] yourself. These two commandments sum up and upon them depend all the Law and the Prophets.” -Matthew 22:37-40 (AMP)
“Jesus said, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.’ This is the most important, the first on any list. But there is a second to set alongside it: ‘Love others as well as you love yourself.’ These two commands are pegs; everything in God’s Law and the Prophets hangs from them.” -Matthew 22:37-40 (The Message)
today… i don’t know why, but i didn’t feel particularly loved.
in fact, i felt kind of lonely.
sometimes, that stuff creeps up on you.
it’s a bit unpleasant to feel that way.
especially since i know that is far from the truth.
you see… i like to spend time with people and i like to talk to people.
this is my “love language”.
but today i wondered if my family and friends are thinking about me.
but maybe the ball is in my court.
maybe i should be paying attention to communicating with others.
and continue to try to communicate no matter what.
besides… i am just as guilty on the same account.
and i shouldn’t expect that the way i communicate is necessarily the way everyone communicates.
i should be learning from others and vice versa.
if i expected everyone to communicate love the way i do, then life would be pretty mundane.
and that’s just unfair to expect something someone might not be able to deliver.
that isn’t characteristic of unconditional love.
and what the heck does God think about all of this?
i mean…. if i don’t communicate with Him… i am pretty much guilty of doing the same thing.
ouch.
do you ever think that sometimes God gets lonely too???
i mean… there are a bunch of people that talk to Him day and night… all hours.
but there are still a lot of us, non-christians and christians alike, that don’t talk to Him on a regular basis.
that’s got to hurt. and on a higher level.
so, yeah. maybe i should make more of an effort to spend time with people and to talk to people.
it’s a tough thing right now since i am uncertain of how things will pan out. and i just seem so busy.
key word: seem. dang. i just called myself out.
and since a lot of people in my life seem to have a lot going on these days as well, it ALL seems rather difficult.
key word: seem. dang. did i just call everyone else out too?
to tell you the truth… we are all guilty at one time or another. it’s pretty inevitable.
but that doesn’t make for a good excuse.
i should make the effort even if i could possibly be let down.
the key is to communicate. ha! it’s that simple.
QUESTION: what are you investing your time in?
ANSWER: it should be in God and others.
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