I really have not given this concept of life-giving love much thought. How we are lost without love within our own lives. Love sustains us and pushes us forward by encouraging us to carry on. It lifts our spirits and gives us hope. All is not lost if we have love in our lives.
In self-gratification, one takes without the consideration of another, no love is given from that selfish act. In giving your love, you care and are sensitive to a person's needs. You wish them well in their endeavors and lend a helping hand when you can. You care for that whole person and not from what you can get from them. You love them and help them to flourish rather than take advantage of them. Life-giving love is compassionate, kind and unselfish. It can breathe new life into a lost soul.
A pouring out of your love into the world is what our world needs. Love can heal a festering wound whereas hate will keep it open. A healing is needed badly within our world and only those with a loving heart can help those who are hurting. A giver of love is what the takers in this world is really looking for. They are looking for life's meaning and love can open that door. It can give them a direction to go in. They will be looking into the light rather than the darkness. In the light, they will see what was missing in their lives and it was love.
Find that spark of love within your own life. Start by thinking about someone you really care for and mentally wish them well. Project only good thoughts toward them and feel that warmth within yourself. Let the love you find within yourself soften your heart and let kindness and compassion take hold. Practice to be a better person. Let the old ways past away and a new you take over. Pray for others that they may find love and be changed by it. Love is life giving, for God created us from his love and God is love (1 John 4:8).
Saturday, March 24, 2018
Friday, March 9, 2018
I Was Not Left Without a Connection
Separation, Isolation, a feeling of being less and without. I made these things apart of my belief about myself. I realize there are different ways you can view your existence. I want to focus this post on two ways of living. I will call them the external and the internal.belief in ourselves.
The external belief consists of everything outside of ourselves, everything that we touch, see, hear and smell. The internal is how we perceive and interpret what our senses are telling us. You could call them our outer world and our interworld. In a spiritual way, you could call them the flesh and the spirit.
Externally, we walk about in our environment in a vehicle of flesh and bone. We are separate from everything as everything is separate from us. However, internally we can feel connected to everything and believing that everything is connected to us. A feeling of isolation can come from believing only in the external and not the internal. It doesn't help if we are suffering from depression in which will cause us to feel isolated and separated from everyone else. A belief could form that I am alone and I am nothing within our world. A depressed person will be trying their best to live in a state sadness and isolation.
The external living is trying to have happiness by attaining more things and looking to gain power and control by buying your way through life, not through respect and honor but through wealth alone. In external living, you connect through ownership. Possessing something becomes your form of connection. Possession brings yourself only temporary satisfaction.
The internal living is being contented and thankful for what you have. It is a peaceful connection to your environment. Not trying to own it but to enjoy it the way it is. It is letting people live the way they want to live without trying to control them. Deception is part of the external and honesty is part of the internal. Peace, love, and happiness come from the internal.
I can say that I am not left without a connection if I connect to my inner self. If I live only viewing the outside of myself, I will feel isolated from my environment. Externally, I am isolated and separated from the things around me but internally, I am spiritually connected to everything. From the internal, is where my connection to God is made.
1 Corinthians 3:16 "Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?"
The external belief consists of everything outside of ourselves, everything that we touch, see, hear and smell. The internal is how we perceive and interpret what our senses are telling us. You could call them our outer world and our interworld. In a spiritual way, you could call them the flesh and the spirit.
Externally, we walk about in our environment in a vehicle of flesh and bone. We are separate from everything as everything is separate from us. However, internally we can feel connected to everything and believing that everything is connected to us. A feeling of isolation can come from believing only in the external and not the internal. It doesn't help if we are suffering from depression in which will cause us to feel isolated and separated from everyone else. A belief could form that I am alone and I am nothing within our world. A depressed person will be trying their best to live in a state sadness and isolation.
The external living is trying to have happiness by attaining more things and looking to gain power and control by buying your way through life, not through respect and honor but through wealth alone. In external living, you connect through ownership. Possessing something becomes your form of connection. Possession brings yourself only temporary satisfaction.
The internal living is being contented and thankful for what you have. It is a peaceful connection to your environment. Not trying to own it but to enjoy it the way it is. It is letting people live the way they want to live without trying to control them. Deception is part of the external and honesty is part of the internal. Peace, love, and happiness come from the internal.
I can say that I am not left without a connection if I connect to my inner self. If I live only viewing the outside of myself, I will feel isolated from my environment. Externally, I am isolated and separated from the things around me but internally, I am spiritually connected to everything. From the internal, is where my connection to God is made.
1 Corinthians 3:16 "Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?"
Saturday, January 6, 2018
A Deeper Understanding
I believe I found the answer that I have been searching for. This post is sort of a continuation of my last post but I wanted to say more about contentment. Contentment is not about having possessions. It is a belief that you have toward yourself. If you say to yourself "I am in need" then you believe you are in need. In the opposite way, if you say to your self " I do not need anything" then that is how you feel. The way we talk to ourselves affect how we feel about ourselves. I realized that if you change that self-talk to something positive and really believe it, your whole outlook on life will change. This is an important point to understand, we are what we believe. What we believe affects our actions and the way we feel.
This is a big truth, a life-changing truth that I have found about my self. I am complete and whole. I do not need anything to complete me. I am always in a state of wholeness. I do not know why I could not understand this truth a long time ago but I do now. I heard the words but I did not feel them to be true. Maybe you can only hear a truth spoken but you will not really understand it until you reach a time in your life that you can truly understand. So I feel that not many of you will understand what I am saying. You will intellectually understand it with your mind but you will not feel it within your heart because it does not have that much meaning to you right now. But I will say this to you, this will become extremely important to you at a certain time in your life. I will go even further to say that this is what we all are searching for the realization that we are complete and whole right now in our lives.
Wherever I am, I am complete. Wherever I go, I am complete. In whatever conditions I am in, I am still complete.
Anything that is added to my life adds to my completeness and happiness. It does complete me but only adds more to my life. If things are taken away from my life, it does not make me incomplete. I am whole and complete until the day I die. Nothing but God can change that.
The basic needs of food, clothing, water, and shelter, all add to my well being. However, if it was all strip away, my feeling of wholeness and completeness would still be there.
This belief of being whole and complete has increased my thankfulness. From this point of complete contentment, I feel truly thankful for everything that I do have. From this place of peace, I give thanks to God and I feel more connected to him.
Yes, this year has brought a great revelation to me. I feel my long search for answers is over.and I have found what I was looking for. I have found my peace and contentment. From this point forward, I can see me having an even greater connection to God. This is all new to me, no more searching but experiencing, what I do have. I feel complete at this moment and I am confident that I will feel this way for the rest of my life. Where will this lead me, I do not know? Only time will tell.
Romans 12:2 "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect."
This is a big truth, a life-changing truth that I have found about my self. I am complete and whole. I do not need anything to complete me. I am always in a state of wholeness. I do not know why I could not understand this truth a long time ago but I do now. I heard the words but I did not feel them to be true. Maybe you can only hear a truth spoken but you will not really understand it until you reach a time in your life that you can truly understand. So I feel that not many of you will understand what I am saying. You will intellectually understand it with your mind but you will not feel it within your heart because it does not have that much meaning to you right now. But I will say this to you, this will become extremely important to you at a certain time in your life. I will go even further to say that this is what we all are searching for the realization that we are complete and whole right now in our lives.
Wherever I am, I am complete. Wherever I go, I am complete. In whatever conditions I am in, I am still complete.
Anything that is added to my life adds to my completeness and happiness. It does complete me but only adds more to my life. If things are taken away from my life, it does not make me incomplete. I am whole and complete until the day I die. Nothing but God can change that.
The basic needs of food, clothing, water, and shelter, all add to my well being. However, if it was all strip away, my feeling of wholeness and completeness would still be there.
This belief of being whole and complete has increased my thankfulness. From this point of complete contentment, I feel truly thankful for everything that I do have. From this place of peace, I give thanks to God and I feel more connected to him.
Yes, this year has brought a great revelation to me. I feel my long search for answers is over.and I have found what I was looking for. I have found my peace and contentment. From this point forward, I can see me having an even greater connection to God. This is all new to me, no more searching but experiencing, what I do have. I feel complete at this moment and I am confident that I will feel this way for the rest of my life. Where will this lead me, I do not know? Only time will tell.
Romans 12:2 "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect."
Finding The Truth
Finding the truth is a hard thing to do. Why? Because it is usually your interpretation or somebody else's interpretation and not the real truth. It is hard to believe in something for most of your life and then find out it was all lies. We live most of our lives mostly believing in what our society is telling us and when we find out that something was not true. It may be hard for us to change those beliefs, depending on how long we have been living that lie.
Luke 12:15 Then he said to them, "Watch out! Be on guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions."
Colossians 2:10 "And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority."
I believe the real truth is within our basic self. In the happiness of that child that we were. A child who looked at the world with wonder. We were happy from the beginning and everything that we touched and seen just added more to that happiness. I believe God put us all here on an equal spiritual footing and then something happened to our lives that took our happiness away.
What happened to us? The lies of the world. Some of the lies are: You are less and I am more. I have something that you do not have and you cannot be happy without it. In truth, we are all whole and complete inside. It is the lie that tells us that we are broken. Chaos happens when we start to think something is missing inside. No, we are complete and whole every second of our lives. Our doubts, worries, and insecurities divide us and make us feel incomplete.
I see equality when a disaster happens. When people who have lost their homes and are living together in a shelter. The young, the old, the rich and the poor are all together and just trying to survive. In these hard times, people will help one another and not be caring about each other's social status. What is important when you go through a disaster? Seeing that your family and friends are safe and unharmed. During that time everything else seems unimportant.
If we want to feel whole and complete, we must not lose sight of what is really important to us in our life. You need to be at peace with yourself and content, to be able to say I have everything that I need, even if you have almost nothing and to be thankful for what you do have.
If we stand with God and really believe that he created us to be whole and complete. We can have peace and contentment in our lives. It does not matter how society will view you. You will be happy and joyful for you will feel God is always with you. All things that you have built can be wiped away by fire and natural disasters but if you stand with God you will have a lasting peace and live forever in his kingdom.
Believe in the truth of God over the lies of men and you can be happy always. If I have only God in my life then I have the truth and that truth brings me peace and contentment into my life. This contentment makes me feel I have found my answers and has made me feel satisfied. I have found that I have all that I need in the truth of God.
Philippians 4:11,13 "Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. 13I can do all things through him who strengthens me."
Luke 12:15 Then he said to them, "Watch out! Be on guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions."
Colossians 2:10 "And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority."
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