...loving...

...yes I love loving. When my heart is so full of love for the people around me that it hurts. The purpose that I feel when God uses me to show a glimpse of His love to another.

I love that my friends know me as someone who cares, who is at her best when meeting people, getting to know them, listening to their stories.

A few years ago I was set a challenge to find an object to describe myself. I chose a battery charger. I wanted to be someone who could help to boost others, to encourage others. To pass on the love that I received from the Source.

On Monday night a friend was speaking to me from Ephesians 3:14-21

For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and
on earth derives its name. I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strngthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ
may dwell in your hearts through faith.

And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord's people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge - that you may be filled to the measure of all the fulness of God.

Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

We were praying for one another in our cell group, and he had been praying for me. His prayer for me was that the love of God would define, fill, consume, meet and win me. That knowing how loved I am would be the defining characteristic of my life.

I take so much pride in being known for loving people. What about if I had a reputation for knowing how loved I am? What if it was my understanding of God's love for me that impacted others? Instead of my own broken human attempts to love.

Can I really love others without truly being rooted and established in God's love? A battery charger is pretty useless when it's not plugged in.

Once again I'm learning to stop trying so hard, and to simply rest in my Father's presence, to let Him open my eyes to His love. It is only through His grace, He is so patient!