That was a truly beautiful post, made even more so for it's truth. May the God of all creation bless you as you have blessed me, His servant, this day.
Love and the peace that surpasses all understanding,
That was a truly beautiful post, made even more so for it's truth. May the God of all creation bless you as you have blessed me, His servant, this day.
Love and the peace that surpasses all understanding,
Leon
P.S. Brother Will, sorry, but after that answer, I wouldn't dare try to post here. Great questions, all.
(1) SECURITY.. A RELIEF THAT SOMEONE ELSE PRAYS AS INTENSELY FOR YOU AS YOU DO FOR THEM.
(2) MOTIVATION I GUESS SEEING OTHERS HAPPY, KNOWING WHAT GOD WANTS FOR US
(3) LOVE MEANS BEING HURT..IT INSURESS IT EVEN..AND I HESITATE
(4) I DONT THINK I TRUELY HAVE
(5)NOT SURE I HAD ONE..
(6) NOT CONVERTING
(7) WANTING TO FEEL THAT POUNDING OF THE HEART..CANT STOP SMILING WHEN YOU HEAR THEIR NAME
(8)BEING ABLE TO SPEAK FREELY WITH OUT FEAR OF REJECTION
(9)NOT SURE
(10) WELL I GUESS WE ARE ALL INCOMPLETE IN THE EYES OF THE LORD SO YEAH I GUESS SO..
(11) IF YOUR NOT DEPENDEANT ON THE OTHER PERSON JUST LITTLE BIT THEN IT WONT WORK
(12)NO WAY THERE ARE NO LIMITS TO IT
(13)THAT CAN BE TRICKY
(14)WELL HE WANTS US TO BE FULLY CONTENT AND DEPENDANT ON HIM SO UNTILL WE REACH THAT POINT WHERE ALL WE NEED IS HIM...HE WONT SEND THE RIGHT PERSON TO US RIGHT??
Love is God. Since God loves us, we are instructed to
"love one another." "If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us." "God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him."
2. What motivates you to love?
The apostle Paul explains:
If you love your neighbor as much as you love yourself you will not want to harm or cheat him, or kill him or steal from him. And you won't sin with his wife or want what is his or do anything else the Ten Commandments say is wrong. All ten are wrapped up in this one, to love your neighbor as you love yourself. Love does no wrong to anyone. That's why it fully satisfies all of God's requirements. It is the only law you need.
3. Do you consider yourself to be competent in the love
department? Why?
Jesus also said:
There is a saying, "Love your friends and hate your enemies." But I say: Love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way you will be acting as true sons of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust too.
If you are friendly only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? Even the heathen do that.
4. How did you succeed in loving another person with
pure motives for a significant amount of time?
You Cannot Love in Your Own Strength. In your own strength it is not possible to love with God's kind of love.
By nature people are not patient and kind. We are jealous, envious and boastful. We are proud, haughty, selfish and rude, and we demand our own way. We could never love others the way God loves us!
5. How did you place unrealistic or idealistic expecatations
upon your past love relationships?
This depends largely upon the intensity of the earlier relationship. More intense the love, more hurt will result after the break up. The past can be very destructive. It kills the person, it kills the present and the future. It can haunt one forever.For me, I'll try to remove everything from my mind and my heart by reliving and go forward. I might no longer feel the hurt and the pain with the same intensity, but it will be very difficult to fall in love with another person again with the earlier intensity.
Deuteronomy 13:3
You must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. The LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul.
6.How did you fail to give what your "loved one" truly needed?
