Today’s Devotional Written By An Extraordinary Young Womant: Tracy Koweh
Love Lifted Me……….
1 Peter 4:8 (Amplified Bible)
8Above all things have intense and unfailing love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins [forgives and [a]disregards the offenses of others].(A)
As I sat down to my computer to write this blog, the words of an old Sunday School song fell on my heart, Love Lifted Me. I couldn’t remember the verses but the line- - -When nothing else could help, Love Lifted Me- - - -stood out so clearly in my mind.
In the past 6 months, several women close to me (including myself) have met and fallen in love with men that don’t fit our normal profile. Although we are of different races, spiritual positions, ages, and backgrounds we all share a common bond of recently and repeatedly being in abusive and unhealthy relationships. We were all guilty of letting ourselves completely go in order to become the woman that our partners wanted us to be, and not the women that God had created us to be.
I can recall each one of us saying that we were finally done. That we were just going to give up on men all together. We had been so broken, so misused and abandoned that we had convinced ourselves we were no longer worthy of respect, honor, faithfulness, and love. But God had other plans for us. He sent each of us a unique creation, designed just for us. The men in our lives have all been hurt and scorned deeply, but they saw something in us that made them want to love again. Each one of them found us. God equipped them with an indescribable amount of compassion, patience, understanding and love.
No one can understand where we are, and we can’t explain it ourselves. Whether it’s the 9 year age difference, the race issue that our family won’t support, or being completely connected and never have once met face to face, we all are in a place of pure bliss and happiness. We all are still struggling to understand what we did to deserve such love, and how to accept it in its fullness. I truly believe that God used these men, to restore us. His love through them lifted us. Love is a powerful thing. It will make you do crazy things, lose your mind, and go completely insane. But when used the right way, love will heal. Love will rebuild. Love will restore.
Today as you go through your normal routine, remember that no matter what hurts, disappointments or failures you go through, God’s love is stronger than that. No matter how deep in the darkness you may think you are. God’s love is brighter than that. No matter how rough the storm gets, God’s love is able to carry you through it. And lastly……….No matter how down on life you may get, God’s love will lift you.
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