Words Of Encouragement To Start The Day (Monday 8/24/09)

Today’s Devotional Written By A Young Woman Of God Who God’s anointing Falls A Fresh: Tracy Koweh

Let Him Love You………..

1 John 4:8 (Amplified Bible)

⁸He who does not love has not become acquainted with God [does not and never did know Him], for God is love.

Today’s message in the music comes from Ruff Ends “Someone to Love You”. The song is about being hurt so long you’ve began to expect it. It’s about being abused so long by those who claim to love, that you don’t know how to freely experience true uncontaminated love.

I’ve experienced relationships throughout my life from many who claim to love me. From my parents, family, friends, and guys I dated. The other day I sat and really thought about who said they loved me, and who showed me. As far back as I can remember my father has not been a constant in my life. I can recall the many times I sat waiting from sun up to sun down on the front porch only to be told he wasn’t coming. On the other hand, I can recall the Sunday School services and the Vacation Bible School summer classes my grandma forced me to go to every year.

Now to this day, my dad speaks of his undying love for me, yet I can’t get him to send me a letter in the mail or call me faithfully once a week. Although my early memories of my grandmother are of me hating life and her making me do things I hated, in 28 years she has never missed one birthday, one Christmas, my baby shower, or the birth of my babygirl.

God is like my grandma. When we are still children in the faith, He has to force us to do things we sometimes don’t like to do, or understand how they play into the grand scheme of our destiny. Sometimes He places us in situations to help us grow and mature, but he is always there. No matter how hard God is on us, He doesn’t miss one milestone in our lives. He is there for each and every breakthrough, no matter how big or small.

Today as we prepare to enter another week, let us open our hearts and minds to be loved in a way that only God can love us. Men and women alike, let us experience love like we’ve never known it. Throw away old mindsets, old memories, and old preconceptions. Today tell God, your heart is in His hands…………..and watch Him take all the hurt and pain and fear away.