“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”
-John 13:34, NIV
How good are you in letting in Jesus’ love?
I think this is the question when it comes to spiritual health. We were made for love as God is love (see I John 4:16). It essential for our well-being.
In fact, I believe we die apart from connection to God’s love.
This is all just a reminder that we need to consider how we let God love us. And I put it this way as I believe God is always working to demonstrate His unrelenting love for us. We just need eyes to see and ears to hear this love.
Take this day:
It is a gorgeous day as I write this. That gift is a gift of love from our Creator to us for those with eyes to see.
Things like that are everywhere. We just need to open our spiritual eyes and ears to receive.
Gratitude is one way we do this. When we focus on the gifts in our life, we open our hearts to Jesus’ love of us.
I suspect this is why God instructs us to be thankful always (see I Thess 5:18). He knew we need to work to keep our hearts open to His love.
When going through the discard and spiteful treatment of a Cheater, this is all so much more important. We need to reconnect to God who loves us through this difficult season. Sometimes, that might mean simply giving thanks for him understanding what it is like to be rejected and forsaken.
So, how good are you in letting in Jesus’ love? What are you going to do to grow in that area today?
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Although my ex left me and filed after a a year and a half of the usual discard phase, I honestly believe that God chose a divorce for me. My ex husband was on the brink of disaster, and had I been married to him when he devolved into a nasty, cantankerous gambler; it would have destroyed me. The office whore got to enjoy all that.
Had my ex wanted me to stay, I likely would have as he had been my one and only, we married at 18 (almost 19). I was broken for a while, but had I stayed even for another five years, it would have seriously destroyed me.
Someone filed an ethics complaint against him (he was involved with his direct report, and had petitioned for a raise for her). I think had that someone not filed that report it would have gone on for at least another year unknown to me. He was doing the distancing and devaluing phase; but all of a sudden in December of the last year he turned into a monster. I found out later that was right after he was exposed via ethics complaint.