In order to have a "successful" life, one must first have a successful relationship with Christ. Let’s take dating and love for instance, in order for you to love someone and successfully share your love with another, you must first love yourself. How can you give to another what you have never given to yourself? If you have never loved yourself, then you are incapable of loving someone else. If you have never shared your love with yourself, then you will not be able to share your love with someone else. What do I mean by loving yourself? What do I mean by sharing your love with yourself?
You love yourself by doing the things that no one else has ever done for you, such as treating yourself to some "You Time." Within the “You time,” you began to learn who you are as a person. You come to understand how you really think, act, feel and look. Now someone just said,” I already know how I really think, act, feel and look,” but the truth is millions of us wake up every morning and get dressed for our day in front of a mirror and yet we don’t really look at ourselves and because we don’t really look at ourselves, we can never fall in love with who we are and most importantly, we will never see ourselves the way God see’s us.
When we truly began to see ourselves the way God see’s us then we can began to love ourselves and share that love with ourselves. “ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life,” (John 3:16). Many of us know that scripture and can recite it verbatim. For many of us that is the only scripture we can recall and get the title, chapter and verse correct without looking in the concordance or table of contents, :0) But do we really know what that scripture means? First let’s break down,”Everlasting,” which means "lasting forever," (Webster’s dictionary). Can you imagine having life forever? More importantly, can you imagine having “Love,” forever? I remember in grade school when boys and girls would begin dating, you would very seldom see a love letter that did not have, “I love you forever.”
Forever is “Everlasting,” therefore learning how to love yourself and share love with yourself through the love and relationship of Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten son is the only way that you will be able to truly love another human being as well as sharing yourself with that person for a lifetime commitment.
Last but not least, when you establish a successful relationship with Christ, you will began to see yourself the way God see’s you. And as a result of seeing yourself the way God see's you, when dating and working toward the lifetime commitment, you will come to understand that you are a “Standard,” and because you are a “Standard,” you, your presence, and the love you share will raise the “Standard,” in the person that you are building a lifelong commitment with.
My Friends, loving you should be like taking a dip in the lake after the angel has come down from the heavens and stirred the water. In other words, the love you share and the love that is shared with you should be healing, refreshing, rejuvenating, invigorating as well as restoring. The love that you share and the love that is shared with you, should cause you both to work a little bit harder and come a little bit sharper, because you know the gift that God has given you; beginning with the understanding of the John 3:16. Everlasting life is a life of splendor established by the birth of Jesus Christ and purchased by his death.
God Bless you in Jesus name, Amen.
Kokey Lanay
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