This past week God gave me some much-needed reminding. I was finding it particularly hard to love the people that are really close to me. For some reason, my heart was hard to even my best friend. Some great conversations and devotional time later I realized the problem was not at all with the people in my life but the position of my own heart.
"If loving God is central to all life loving others will flow naturally from there."
My body's alarm was going off. It's as if God was saying "Ariana! You're trying to love others with your own strength. Come back. Love others with the love I'm giving you."
It was almost an immediate change. God melted and molded my heart back to him. He reorientated my compass and loving the people around me came naturally.
This reminds me of the verse from Loyalty and Commitment, May 10th.
"So we fix our eyes not on what is seen but what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary. What is unseen is eternal." II Corinthians 4:17
God, I pray that daily I can be fixing my eyes on you. That you can mold and shape us to desire and seek you in everything we do. Amen.
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