So what has me behind my keyboard taking on such a task? Well it all started after reading a quote in a book. There is no fear in love! Now this had me thinking and this my friends has brought me to my desk and here I sit typing away.
Jesus gave a new commandment John13:34-35 "A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another, by this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."
You maybe asking yourself what does this have to do with matters of the heart? It has everything to do with the heart. You see when "Jesus gave this new commandment, He gave it out of love. Perhaps He knew it would be one of the hardest things man could do.
Yet it is so easy to love! We have love for baseball, kittens babies, we even have love for one another to a certain degree. What we don't have is un-condtional love for one another! The kind of love that "Christ has for us.
We hold back out of fear. Fear of rejection, fear of not being loved: fear of not being worthy of such a gift. Perhaps we are afraid of giving love a second chance, maybe we have been hurt in the past and the very thought of giving our hearts away brings back that bitter memory.
What ever the reason may be, we are incapable of fully loving with out having fear tagging along!Oh what we miss out on when we hold back all because we have fear in our hearts. Letting go of the past hurts will allow us to grow. Open the heartstrings and allow someone in to see what "Christ saw when He gave His new commandment.
That we are worthy of being loved and ever so capable of giving love in return. Love was not born out of fear, it was given to us not as a gift but a curse! When we live our lives out in fear we loose more tan we gain. Love is not to be feared but cherished nurtured, like that of a beautiful flower.
Feeding into fear smothers the wonderful feelings that only love can bring to the surface of one's soul. Love makes us happy, it brings warmth to our very being. Love is a feel good, feeling so much so that we want to share it with everyone we meet on the street.
One can not help but smile from the inside out. Love can make a bad day seem do-able. You have positive thoughts instead of living in a world of negativity. You are the kind of person that everyone wants to be around when love has her perfect way with one's soul.
This is why "Christ wanted to give this new commandment, so that we could live a life of happiness. The adversary the biggest lair of them all, gave man fear. He knew if we had love for one another we wouldn't see his cunning way's. He could hide behind the lie that love hurts its not a good feeling it will only bring you pain and tears!
Its the first thing he throws in our face when the very person we love has hurt our feelings, he widens the gap by having the hurt feelings stay up-front. Oh he is so cunning hat he will have us think its our own thoughts when in fact their his!
Matters of the heart are very complicated there is no doubt about that, its how you choose to use the power that love has. If you are still holding back out of fear I encourage you to take it into prayer, ask "God to help you open your heart to love. What have you t loose?
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Author of "Matters of The Heart" Victoria E. Miera
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