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Originally Posted by revrandy
The life is empty of love and void of living. The eyes are empty spaces of documented failure and the brain is storing all of the files of the past. The pain is undeniable and the tears are always real. The footsteps are hollow echoes in the halls of shame and everywhere the eyes look there is the mirrored image of the same failures and defeats sickly smiling back.
The scars are massed on the heart and it is void of feeling because it can’t be touched. The soul is a dark chamber of secrets and the door is sealed shut with rusty nails beaten down by the hammer of life.
“Who has a reason to love the unloved anymore?” is the question I am faced with when I look into the face of the damned and hear myself answer “I do”
My reason for loving is not an impure thought or motive but the desire to see the light glisten in the eye. The spring of the step that knows that the path of hope is well lit. The reason I can love is because despair did not win my soul with deceit or the bitter taste of life. It was the sweetness of Grace and Mercy that dried my tears and pealed the layers of scars off my heart until His Blood flowed into my life and filled me with a reason.
Just a thought...
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Bro. Randy,
The Love of God is such a Powerful thing. Over and over through the
years I have seen God's Love accomplish great things nothing else could
have done.
The young teenaged girl, pregnant out of wedlock, come and be shown
the love of God through those long nine months. As she hears of God's
love from the pulpit and sees it in action through the church, by the time
she is due to deliver, she is broken, uncomfortable and scared, not know-
ing what is ahead. She is going through a change in her heart, as her body
has and continues to change.
Older motherly, compassinate women, relate to this young soul as they
remember the struggle from conception to deliverence. They offers a kind,
soft, gentle, loving word to let the younger know they understand. The
young girl smiles softly, realizing she's not the only one who has been down
this road. Somehow she doesn't feel so alone anymore.
This girl used to come ever once in a while, along with her boyfriend, a
seemingly nice guy who tries to listen to the preacher. He is hearing words
he has never heard and it sounds uplifting. Words of hope. If only she would
listen too and not distract him so much.
Later they come more often with her parents, then we learned of her preg-
nancy. Now they come almost weekly and we watch a transformation of
this couple. The Word and the Love of God together are doing a work of
grace. Later the ladies give her a baby shower, some even hand knitting
beautiful blankets, etc with their loving hands. She has never felt SO loved.
Then this week she delivered a 8 lb.,12 oz. baby boy. A beautiful child who
has no idea how God drew his mother and father to the house of God. Who
doesn't know that Love did what nothing else could do.
The evening of the second day in the hospital, she called the pastor's wife,
a mother of a young baby herself, and said hesitantly, 'Sister -----, thank
you for my beautiful flowers. I can't believe he's mine. I can't believe I get
to take him home and keep him. Sister -----, Sister -----, I love you!
Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a
multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4:8
God knows how to draw them to Himself and sometimes it happens through
what we might think as unlikely circumstances. What we might tend to think
as a tragedy, might well be a blessing in disquise. Our reactions to the
things that happen to people might well be the very thing GOD is using to
bring about their salvation.
JESUS knows how. HE shows His Love many times by humbling us first. Bringing us
down to where He can get our attention and talk to us. Speaking the truth IN
LOVE. Forget the harshness, and the demanding tone. Forget holding them
over the fires.
Just LIFT HIM UP, and by all means, SHOW HIS LOVE!!
IF we do our part, HE will do HIS!
Hugs,
Falla39
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