Letter: Thank-you for what you said. I'm okay. I understand that family who don't see
each other often, only remember who they were and don't really know who they
are. And many times, for whatever reasons, people let the past get in the way
of getting to know who each other are, today. It does hurt, but many people
don't realize that life itself changes people everyday, and that because we are
continually changing; we never really get to fully know anybody. Maybe the
person did just get worse, but maybe life made him/her a better person. How
will we ever know if we aren't open to forgiving them and giving them another
chance? After all, God is a God of second, and third, and fourth, and fifth...
chances. Thank God!
I always
remember what the bible says about Jesus. How He was always just a carpenter to
those in His hometown, despite all of the miracles He did. They saw Him
physically heal people just like others did, but the others were not prejudiced
by his past, so they saw what He did and believed that He was who He said He
was. Not just a carpenter. But, interestingly, even God, in the flesh (Jesus), had to
wait for the confinements of this physical mind and body to mature before He
could do what He came here to do.
It's
like what I used to think about when I watched the fish I raised for years. When
things were good for the fish they were happy with their life in my tank, but
when they became ill, it would upset me because they were my responsibility and
I really cared for them. If I could have, I would have jumped in and become one
of them, let them know that I want to understand what they are going through,
and what it's like to be in their "flesh", and assure them that I am looking out
for them. But, of course, I am not God. And unfortunately, I couldn't protect
them from the forces of evil either. My ex put bleach in their tank and burned
them, because he knew they had my heart. Very, very hard to watch those innocent
lives suffer, unable to help them.
But,
thankfully, we don't have a God that doesn't know what it's like to be human.
And our spirits will not always have to live in this earthly body. And
thankfully, He can help us and protect us from those that want to hurt us. It
doesn't mean that we won't ever suffer. We suffer because this world has been
given free will, and because this world is Satan's only "heaven" he will ever know, but it won't be forever. When this life is over, there is a life with God in Heaven for those of
us who choose to love our creator. This life in
the flesh is definitely something to experience, even if we don't understand or
even agree with the "terms" of our creation. But when we are drawn to God, through his Love, through JESUS, it doesn't seem to matter anymore?!
Even though I love God, I told God that I don't understand who He is, and then I understood this simple, yet profound thing.
Love is so basic, and yet love is like a magnet and will draw men / women to
itself. It is a powerful force. God is Love and
Love is of God, and we only love God because He loved us first. (1 John 4:16, 19)
Okay,
enough for now. Good-night. I love
you! 1 John 4:7 - 5:5 | 4:7 | Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. | | 4:8 | He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. | | 4:9 | In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. | | 4:10 | Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. | | 4:11 | Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. | | 4:12 | No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. | | 4:13 | Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. | | 4:14 | And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. | | 4:15 | Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. | | 4:16 | And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. | | 4:17 | Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. | | 4:18 | There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. | | 4:19 | We love him, because he first loved us. | | 4:20 | If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? | | 4:21 | And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also. |
| Chapter 5 |
| | 5:1 | Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. | | 5:2 | By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. | | 5:3 | For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. | | 5:4 | For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. | | 5:5 | Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? |
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