Love is Greater Than Fear!
Have you ever seen a child just pick up a bug, a lizard, or a snake? Have you ever seen a child try to touch fire? They do it without fear. HAVE YOU EVER seen a young person in love? They approach and engage without fear.
The little baby who gets his hand slapped at the thought of trying to touch a hot stove enters into the world of fear. They do not fear the fire or the heat , but they fear the sound, the feeling, and the pain of the slapped hand.
Fear is a learned behavior. Yet, what do you really fear... about love.
People don’t fear love, but they fear the sound, the feeling, the pain of being hurt. This trepidation comes from the torment of denunciation and disregard. It’s like a slap to the face when you allow yourself to become vulnerable to another human being and they treat you like a toy 2 weeks after purchase...LOST and FORGOTTEN!!
So because of this past hurt, people do 1 of 2 things: 1. They play with the fire (love) by NEVER allowing themselves to be consumed: Never committing!! They fill life’s precious time with acts (work, church, club, games, parties, music, dates, sex, etc.) that don’t involve getting to know someone…just to avoid hurt. Some people do this even in marriage!!! 2. They enter into relationships that have no value, wasting time. They completely allow themselves to be consumed in paralyzed relationships, because they believe hurt and love are synonymous.
Oh, but there is hope today!!!
You have to first dissociate yourself with all the spirits of anxiety, lust, and past hurts. You have to connect yourself with God, so that you will know how to identify love.
Let me help you..
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 New Living Translation (NLT)
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
So if you need a check list to see if someone loves you or if you love them, see the above scripture. This doesn’t mean you need to cut someone loose because of their inability to love you correctly, but this does mean that you must model what you expect.
"So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
Franklin D. Rosevelt -the 32nd president stated this in 1933 his first Inaugural Address.
Ha Ha HAAAA!!! FDR was talking about getting out of the Great Depre$$ion. He was telling the people not to panic, everything would be ok!! So here is my New DEAL!! Stop going to the banks and pulling out all your investments (your standards to find a mate- Single people; Your daily routines of love that you keep showing -Married People; All of those times you paid for the meal and they didn't even say thank you- friends/family)
Amazing how the lack of money and the lack of love can bring some people to the same emotional state---DEPRESSION----but that is a sermon for another time. If there is a lack just know ---It is just for a season --Don't panic--everything will be ok!!!
Hey I love you.
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