| Daily Thought — January
17, 2008 |
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| LIVING THE
SOLUTION WITH DAILY INSPIRATION |
Love from
the center of who you are; don't fake it. (Romans 12:9 — The Message)
Love from the center of who you are.
What is that center? It is your heart. Love from your
heart; don’t fake it. Don’t show interest
in someone for what you can get out of them, but show
genuine interest in them just because they live. Show
interest for how you might be able to help them become
who they believe God created them to be. That is loving
from your heart. It is expressed in Philippians 2 as
thinking more about the needs of others and putting those
needs above your own. In other words help others reach
their goals and dreams first; that is loving from your
heart.
Now I know this is difficult because we live in a “me” first
culture. It seems everyone is reaching out and getting
all they can. However, we were all created for love and
intimacy, first with God and then with others. We were
created in His image, an image and heart that put the
needs of others above His own needs. That is what Jesus
did when He came to earth and lived and died for us.
That is our heritage; that is the DNA from which we all
are made. Anything else is less than what and who we
were created to be. That is why we are instructed to
live like Jesus did. It is not so we can fail and see
how bad we are and how good Jesus is. God asks us to
live life like Jesus did because He knows we can. He
knows what we are made of; He created us. The only one
who believes that we can’t is us, but if we think
that we are deceived.
When you find yourself saying I just can’t love
that person, or I am not a person who can be intimate
or close with others, you are only deceiving yourself.
You are cheating yourself out of your heritage and the
life for which you were created. You are denying the
truth about how God made you, in His loving image.
You have what it takes to live and love like Jesus. You
have what it takes to love from the center of who you
are; don’t fake it.
Live intentionally, purposely, free and with passion,
Pete Reinbold
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