Awareness is one of those things we all think or hope we have. At some level we are aware of things in general. Some of us even consider ourselves somewhat intuitive. But how far does the awareness go. Unfortunately many of us are so caught up in what we perceive in our worlds around us we are blind to the things we have missed. Much of what we miss is in the area of personal awareness. We are not always as perceptive in our dealings with others where I think awareness is most essential if the goal is healthy relationship with others. We were created to be in fellowship with God and others, but living in community with others is sometimes a delicate process.
Today we have been looking at the greatest commandment given to man by God " to love one another". This is a big task. Being honest, from my vantage point, I am not sure I am a good at this. Oh the desire to be good at loving others is there. But in the rawness of reality I have often failed miserably at this essential of loving others. We have the best example and motivation in the world for loving others. Yet we struggle so much. I am becoming a simpleton sometimes in the way I think of things. I hesitate, and this may be unhealthy, but I hesitate nonetheless, because the first reaction seems so basic and that we look so hard for a solution to the ailment when it is right before us. The reality how poorly I and my brothers and sisters in Christ struggle in loving one another, cause a deep mourning for the loss of what God gave, modeled and ask of his children. My heart literally a breaks at every remembrance of how I have not loved those God has given me to love. My challenge vacillates between an immobilizing excuse and wonderment of the grace given to ones so given to faithlessness. My excuse has been that I do not know how to love, because I was deemed unlovable and undeserving. Yet I am on my face in amazement of the incredible love given to us. Should this not be all we need? More later…
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