Unloveable part 5
I can see the logic behind protecting yourself from "unloveable" or negative people. But I don't think closing your heart off to someone is really protecting yourself at all. I think it's hurting you, and it's hurting the person who probably needs love the most. Because if someone seems unloveable, that probably means they aren't getting any love. And let me say it like this: If loving people was easy, everybody would do it. But most people are so busy looking for love (in all the wrong places) they don't even think about giving love to anybody. Because you can't give what you don't have. Until you know--with a knowledge that passes knowledge, a heart knowledge not a head knowledge--that you are unconditionally loved... you will never be able to truly love anybody. Because love isn't about getting. It's about giving. Giving what you've got. You can't give what you don't have. And you can only give what you do have. So if you think you don't have love, you'll try to get it. And you'll cut off anyone who doesn't give it to you. But, guys, that's selfish. That's not what love is about, at all. Love is about meeting people where they're at and lifting them up as you both rise in love. Love is about building bridges, not walls to hide behind. I'm fully convinced (and I've Ranted and preached on this before) that in order to guard your heart you have to keep it open. You can't close it off, or shut it down. That's not guarding it. That's wasting it. And I know it's easy to judge by appearance. To see the surface stuff and deal with it on that surface level. But that's not what's real. The real is hidden a little deeper down. You know, the inner man. The hidden man of the heart. Not loving somebody because they're easy to love, but loving someone because Daddy loves you. And His love has filled you to overflowing. So that it's not even a conscious decision. It's not about pulling flower petals. "He loves me, He loves me not. I'll love. I won't love." It's just living. To live is to love and to love is to love. We can all be "unloveable" at times because we all do things that other people don't like. But if love is conditional--if it depends on how we act--then it's not love. Love is simply, "I have what you need, so let me share it with you." Love is simply, "I'm too full of love to keep it to myself. It overflows naturally with every breath I take and every move I make." That's what it means to live in Him. To let Him live in us. It means we love the unloveable. It means we let our light shine wherever we go. Not by trying really hard to make it shine, but by believing that HE is shining in us, and through us, and as us! So, as I've been saying for this whole Rant series, I don't think you should put yourself in a bad situation where you let other people crush you. You don't have to be a doormat and let people walk all over you. You can strengthen yourself in the Lord and share what you've got. Even if it's only a tiny bit at a time. You don't have to spend every second of every day with difficult people. But you can love them no matter what!