10.13.09
Living Love…
God woke me up at 4:30 this morning to give me this blog. I had no idea how relevant it would be to a phone call I received a few hours later. He is amazing! :)
Anyway, here is what He woke me up about. He was pressing on my heart strongly how important it is that we operate in unconditional Love encouraging others, not judging them but showing them His Love. We currently live in a society filled with many people who think if they are a believer that suddenly they are a notch above others or that it is their God given right to judge others. Let’s leave the judging to Him remember He is the one that searches the hearts of His children. Let’s live it (i.e. show it) or the message of speaking it will continue to fall on deaf ears and cause others to stumble.
Please let’s renew our minds and hearts. When we show Love we become a magnet to others. Have you ever been around a person who is warm, happy, and loving? Don’t you find that you are drawn to that person because something within you seeks that same happiness for yourself? And when your world seems to be falling down around you isn’t that the person you turn to first?
How do we learn to act in Love? We need to ask for the Spirit of Love to be poured into our hearts. Then ask for God to teach you His Love. See when we learn to turn to Him first for everything that is when we start seeing movement in our lives. He is then able to teach us Himself or send someone who He has selected to teach us (this is very important – seek Wisdom from Him first. Don’t go out looking for it. It is critical that He guides you and brings the people to teach you otherwise it may be thru someone else’s perspective who does not yet know unconditional Love).
Learning unconditional Love is not easy actually it is the hardest thing I have faced (even next to all the health issues). The reason for that is because the world has poured in so much false and negativity to each of us that God has to weed out many things to purify our hearts. It hurts to have stuff ripped out of our hearts but it is critical. So yes people will be sent into your path to push every button you have to see if you are still standing strong in unconditional Love. Do you have someone in your life right now where you keep crying out, “Why God – why? Why do I keep getting people like this who are so difficult to work with or be around?” I say turn to God and ask Him what He is trying to teach you, yes teach YOU. Quit asking Him to change the other person and ask Him to change you. What part of your heart is He trying to change? Are you judging? Are you quick to anger? It’s not easy to Love when someone is spitting in your face but there is no greater strength than when He has brought you to a place that you can turn the other cheek. You no longer see that person as someone who is horrible or someone “you” would never be but suddenly you see them through an empathetic heart wanting them to know Love so they have happiness and not the bitterness that is causing them to act that way.
So the next time that religious spirit rises in you causing you to ask yourself is that person glorifying God ask this, “are they operating in Love?” When people live the love of Christ then every single breath, every step, every blink of an eye is being done in Him to glorify His name. You’ve all heard the saying, “Actions speak a million words” so please understand the best way to glorify Him is to start living it.
I also want to encourage you parents out there to teach your children how to love – IT IS SO IMPORTANT! Suicide is at an alarming rate and I am hoping I can encourage you to step forward and do something about it. Please ensure your kid isn’t the one always putting others down or thinking they are better than anyone else. LIFE IS NOT ABOUT A COMPETITION! Ask yourself, “Is what is coming out of their mouth encouraging or detrimental to someone?” And also take a good long look in the mirror – what are they learning from you? It MUST begin with a change in you so you can live it and teach it to your children. I want to share a story about a little girl who has a heart bigger than Texas. She doesn’t give into society about dressing a certain way but is a free spirit with a heart more beautiful than most in this world but because of this, the kids at school are not nice to her. She has only a couple of friends. This little girl emptied her piggy bank of everything to help for a cause at school because that is the kind of unselfish, wonderful heart she has and do you know that no one at school can see past the way she dresses or the fact that she may be a little “different’? And this precious little girl feels unworthy!!! This is happening today … It takes everything she has to get up and go to school each day because she doesn’t know what ridicule she will face. It saddens my heart so much. Let’s start making a difference so that the kind-hearted children (young and old) are no longer the rarity but the selfish, greedy, hardened heart children are the ones you have to look deep and wide to find.
I encourage you to join me in bringing this Love to the world today. It is time to start SHOWING Love – putting hands and feet to making a difference in this world. God bless you all!
Lots of Love!!!
Sandi Rauwolf
Author, Blessings Too Good
Paul metz said,
October 13, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Wow sandi sleeping in is not for you, you have captured alot of what I have always said to my family. My wife and have raised our kids as Christians and they still carry these values with them wherever they go. Each one of them would go without to help someone in need but not boast about it or ask for anything in return but they give God the glory.
Please be in prayer for a young man afraid to go to school in his senior year because of bullies threats and ridicule. His name is zach the son of a coworker of mine.
Thank you for giving up sleep to bring us Gods message. God bless you and your family