Loving When You've Been Hurt

When we serve the people that have hurt us we are doing an amazing thing for God. Next time you're faced with the opportunity to bless someone who is or has been mean to you, fix your eyes on Christ. Pretend with all your might that the service you are doing is for God and not that person and see what a beautiful blessing God will pour out. We are here on this earth to serve. It is easy to serve those who are kind to us. Not easy to be kind or even serve or help those who are bullies. Not easy to forgive those who have yelled at us. Not easy to love those who have said awful and done awful things to us. Those actions are miracles,  only though Christ is that kind of love, forgiveness and service possible. Even if that person doesn't notice or anyone else for that matter, God is always watching!  And when we love Him with all our might we then can pour out his love onto those who are difficult to love. It is then that His face shall shine down onto yours and he will thank you from heaven for loving your brother or sister in Christ as you love yourself. Do the thing with Christ in mind, knowing that all we do is for Him and through him his love shall shine ever so brightly in your heart and you will expereience a joy and a peace that is beyond all your understanding.  

Understand and believe that God's character is one of justice, everlasting love and compassion. He understands your pain and he will never waste ANY of it. He will pay you double for your trouble if you choose to let Him in and help you. His promises are true. We don't need to take justice into our own hearts and keep polluting ourselves with bitterness and resentment. In the end, every knee shall bow. He is just and He will make every wrong right!  I know God's promises to be true because they have been realized in me. I trust God with my pain, I trust him with my dreams, I trust him with my family because the alternative is a life of anxiety, want, fear and pain. A life without purpose. It is not easy trusting God. I will admit that a year ago I couldn't in all honesty say those words without lying. But now I can and it feels amazing. I've never been able to trust anyone in my life. It has to start with God. He is the only one that will not disapoint. He is the only one that will never fail. It will not be easy, but nothing GREAT has ever come from "easy". He does promise that "when you pass through the waters He will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will NOT sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will NOT be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze." Isaiah 43:2 

Stay Blessed and Stay Saucy! 

-Libier