| Daily
Thought – July 19, 2004 |
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| LIVING THE SOLUTION WITH DAILY INSPIRATION |
Love the
Lord your God with all your heart and with all your
soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
(Mark 12:30)
Love is freely giving
of your self to someone else. With God, He wants all
of us, not just our service, respect and honor. He wants
our hearts, our souls, our minds, and our strength. He
wants us to love Him with everything. We are to hold
nothing back. But we do hold things back. It may be a
dream, a favorite habit, or some possession or person
that holds a higher place in our hearts. And we know,
at least in our heads, that we should not hold these
things back from God because to do so means we are putting
them before God. Anything that we do not give to God,
anything that we are unwilling to give to God, holds
a higher place of honor in our heart than God. This includes
our hurts, sorrows, lost dreams and desires.
When we are unwilling to face our hurts, pains, and
losses, when we are unwilling to bring them honestly
before God and say to Him, “This hurts”,
we are holding out on God. We are not giving Him everything
that makes us who we are and He wants all of us including
our respect, honor, service, our joys and our sorrows.
God knows what it means to hurt. He knows what it means
to have your hopes and dreams broken. God knows what
it means to have your heart broken and for your plans
not to turn out the way you had hoped. Look at His relationship
with man; do you think it was His desire for Adam and
Eve to betray Him, to distrust His heart? Do you think
that each time one of us, His beloved, turns our back
on Him it does not cause Him to grieve?
We all have things that we need to grieve and to mourn
and if we are going to love God the way He wants us
to love Him we must mourn the losses of our hearts.
We must lay them before Him with honesty about how we
feel and why their loss hurts. We must let Him know
our heart for Him to heal us and for us to be able to
love the Lord your God with all your heart and with
all your soul and with all your mind and with all your
strength.
God is ready, waiting and longing to hear from you;
ready to understand your disappointments, ready to bring
comfort and healing to your aching heart and soul. Don’t
hold out on Him anymore. Don’t hold anything thing
back no matter how small you may think it is in the
big story. If it meant something to you, if it’s
loss caused you pain, it also means something to God.
In His heart there is nothing too small or too trivial
to talk about or grieve.
Live it with Passion
Pete Reinbold
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