Love looks like something....

Love looks like something......

                                                                     - Heidi Baker

 

 

Sometimes people exhibit qualities which make us very mistrustful of them.

 

Sometimes people exhibit qualities which remind us of people who hurt us in the past and in subsequent interactions, we unconciously erect a invisible barrier.

 

Sometimes people exhibit qualities which make us want to have nothing to do with them.

 

Sometimes people exhibit qualities which serve as a test to the very love that we profess to have.

 

 

What is love? Is it a feeling? Is it an emotion? Is it in what we do? Can our love be shown by our actions?

 

There was once a man who asked the question, 'What do you live for'. He directed it towards his friend who answered 'For God's will to be done in my life'. Good answer.

 

The same man then asked his friend 'Imagine you had an invisible pigeon attached to you, who followed you around 24-7 for 2-3 straight months. Now imagine that pigeon could speak. At the end of that time, if he was asked to give his report, what would he say you lived for? What followed was a thoughtful and solemn silence.

 

The truth is, we all have that pigeon following us around. He can be likened to that angel you see in the movies, watching you at every turn, noting down every good and bad thing you do and bringing it to his master. You see God knows the truth about us and no matter what we profess, our actions will always justify or betray us.

 

Today, I learnt a valuable lesson. I had an issue with someone and was just about to speak to them about a few things that really were bugging me, hoping they would recieve it and change. Then I remembered something my friend had told me three days before.

 

'I felt like God just spoke to me. He showed me that sometimes someone can do or say something which can throw you or show up something not good in them. Because of that, sometimes we decide to draw back from them. But God showed me the issue is not what it highlighted in them, but the fact that I drew back. It shows my lack of love'.

 

Sobering thought. Would it have been a bigger sacrifice to go in all guns blazing in order to 'speak the truth in love' or would the bigger and better sacrifice be humbling myself and praying for what I saw as chinks or absences in their armour, so God could heal and restore things?

 

It's easy to see. I too, am lacking...