Friday, August 26, 2005
Beware of the stronghold
of cold love.
Is your love growing and becoming softer, brighter, more daring, and more visible? A measurable decrease in your ability to love is evidence that a stronghold of cold love is developing within you.
Bitterness is characterized by a noticeable lack of love. In our generation, cold love is becoming increasingly more coomon. It shuts down the power of us praying and disables the flow of healing and outreach. Living in a world of increasing harshness and cruelty, it is inevitable that people will not be hurt at times. But if you fail to react with love and forgiveness; if you retain in your spirit the debt the offender owes you, that offense will rob your heart of its capacity to love.
And if every time you refuse to forgive or fail to overlook a weakness in another, your heart not only hardens toward them, it hardens toward God. We, human, cannot form a negative opinion of someone (even though they may deserve it!) and allow that opinion to crystalize into an attitude.
Love is committment. We cannot say we love someone when we don't commit. Because in love, time is needed to invest. Therefore, we each need people who are committed to us as individuals; people who know we are not perfect but love us anyway. This, is something that cannot be bought with money, but through Him who build the church.
When I have love for someone, I have predetermined that I am going to stand with them, regardless of what they are going through.
maoed.]
at 11:37 PM
+++His child.
jiayi; jean. 060488// hope// sound ministry// neb1// grace's sheep// phs// 5compassion// basketball//
+++smiles.
Him// simpsonx// shuping// red.black.white// eight// violin// guitar// disney// animals// kids// adidas// bottoms// horror::thrillers// watermelon// peach// mango// tomato// tea// fish// white chocs// marshmellows// shopping// friendships
+++frowns.
noise// dirtiness// chili// pork// snake// comedies// thunders// lightnings//
+++memories.
chalet//
courageous camp//
devotees//
devotees`bbq//
faith camp//
firework`04//
foundation camp//
life in the kingdom//
neb//
phs`03//
phs'04//
seventeen//
siMpsOnx//
student conference//
the ultimate dare//
+++books.
a love worth giving// a woman's answer to anger// every young woman's battle// helping others without hurting yourself// journeys of friendship//
if you want to walk on water, you've got to get out of the boat// in the grip of grace// love beyond reason// loving God with all your mind// recapture the world//
the friendship's of women// traveling light// wild at heart// words that hurt words that heal//
