A woman hurt a young lady by turning her back on her. She did not take her phone calls or respond to her text messages. The young lady got a disturbing phone call that changed her life yet hurt her so deeply. She tried to call the woman that she thought was her friend but she could not be reached. She concluded that the woman had something to do with the phone call and could not bear to take her call.
Six months passed and the woman emailed the young lady and the young lady showed her no love, instead she showed her, the pain she had by not responding. She was quickly convicted while studying about love. As this young lady studied, she recalled being a child saying, “All God wants me to do is show love because no one knows how to love.”
This scenario furthered my thoughts to the instructions saying, “Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but giving a blessing instead; for you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing” (1 Peter3:8-9).
These instructions are advising us to be sympathetic towards one another. We are instructed to have a open heart. It goes on to say love as brothers. To love your brother is a love that can’t be broken. A sibling is yours forever, you can’t go back and renegotiate the terms, you get what you get. What you get, you are called to love, for your siblings are gifts. No matter what your sibling does you are to love them and forget about what they did.
This is a hard concept to fathom but it is something we all have victory over. As my mind further studies this scripture I think of tenderhearted and courteous. When I am tender hearted, I am forgiving. When I am courteous, I am polite. Concluding this it says, we are called to love.
The young lady recalled being a child knowing her purpose, to display love, even when others hurt her. She accepted this calling; however, as she grew and had some people treat her like dirt her calling seemed far from her. She mixed her pain with love. The mixing of her pain was acting the law of selfishness, which hindered her to continue showing love to the one that hurt her.
God is gracious. His mercies are new every morning ( Lamentations 3:22-23) and because of that we should be merciful to others. When we adopt the ways of the world, displaying selfishness because all we are thinking of is “how they hurt me” it is as if we are having an affair with the world, over our relationship with Christ.
Relationships are falling apart because you won’t dare to love as brothers. You might have been hurt by your spouse, friend, co-worker or relative but God is saying love as brothers. Maybe you hurt someone and have not allowed the Lord in. Perhaps someone hurt you and all you can think of is the pain they caused you.
Vengeance is the Lord. Are you seeking the Lord to restore your pain? Consider taking communion and asking the Lord for forgiveness. Pray to God to forgive you for paying evil for evil. Call upon the Lord to give you strength to love beyond your pain. Ask the Father to guide you as you show love to those that hurt you. For selfishness causes lack.
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This same situation just happened to me. I was stunned. Yet I had to listen and pray. We do not all grow in the same manner. We could also learn from how others take a stand in their own "Self assessments"
We say we are Chritstians when all is going our way. Yet the way of Christ is to forgive our brothers in all we do and say. We are not to look for the situations to be favorod toward us. Instead we are to allow favor to come through us by showing love itself. As we live, we learn to forgive. Let God get back as we stay on track. Turn the other cheek as we are weak. Realize we need one another as we show love to our brother.
Heddie J. A Poetic Ministree, Inc
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