The Lord revealed a truth to me last night that I felt I should share with you guys here.
The question I was being faced with is what is my most basic need and how am I trying to fill it? Well, my most basic need - and I think it's everyone's - is to be loved.
The Lord then revealed to me that God MUST be my source of love. NOTHING else must make or break whether I feel loved, because I must drink my fill from God. My need to be loved MUST be met by God, and by nothing else. I shouldn't turn to someone else for love - it is only God's love that will be able to fulfill me and carry me. No human love can compare. Only THEN will I be able to love someone else sacrificially and not make an idol of their love. If the person that I love the most in the world stops loving me, it should not change anything about how loved I feel, because my source of love fulfillment must be God and not another person. I have to turn to God. When the need arises to feel loved, I must turn to Jesus.
This is not to say that relationships are bad for you and that you should go through life single. Not at all! On the contrary, it means that when you accept and drink from God's love, you won't need another person's love to make you feel special or make you feel you're worth something. Only THEN will you be able to love someone the way and to the extend that God intended for us to love: sacrificially. And only then can you be loved by someone else without you placing that person on the throne of your heart instead of God, where you worship that person instead of God.
I hope this blesses someone as much as it did me. God is awesome!
The question I was being faced with is what is my most basic need and how am I trying to fill it? Well, my most basic need - and I think it's everyone's - is to be loved.
The Lord then revealed to me that God MUST be my source of love. NOTHING else must make or break whether I feel loved, because I must drink my fill from God. My need to be loved MUST be met by God, and by nothing else. I shouldn't turn to someone else for love - it is only God's love that will be able to fulfill me and carry me. No human love can compare. Only THEN will I be able to love someone else sacrificially and not make an idol of their love. If the person that I love the most in the world stops loving me, it should not change anything about how loved I feel, because my source of love fulfillment must be God and not another person. I have to turn to God. When the need arises to feel loved, I must turn to Jesus.
This is not to say that relationships are bad for you and that you should go through life single. Not at all! On the contrary, it means that when you accept and drink from God's love, you won't need another person's love to make you feel special or make you feel you're worth something. Only THEN will you be able to love someone the way and to the extend that God intended for us to love: sacrificially. And only then can you be loved by someone else without you placing that person on the throne of your heart instead of God, where you worship that person instead of God.
I hope this blesses someone as much as it did me. God is awesome!
