Love your enemies, and love that one person who embodies every single one of your pet peeves and always seems to find the fastest way to most intensely annoy you.
Each person’s personality — our most and least favorite parts — is a gift, and it’s all about how we receive the uniqueness of each person in his or her personality. Each trait speaks an aspect of God’s heart. Accepting everyone as they are isn’t always easy, but it’s easier than being surprised and rattled every time they do that one thing over and over and over again. It’s more than that, though; when we accept people, they have the freedom to be themselves. After all, unity is not uniformity.
It’s scary to give people permission to be themselves. Maybe the Lord is asking you to expand your heart to fit them in it.
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A Father’s Heart
We come in as sons and daughters, then we graduate from sonship and daughtership. When we fall in love and receive the gift of the beloved, we have this deep desire to bear fruit and to let this love overflow. In this love, sons and daughters become spouses and from there we mature to become mothers and fathers. What we want is to live with the Father’s heart — to give unselfish and sacrificial love. It is definitely not easy. But we are invited to become fathers and mothers after the heart of God.
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Under Open Heavens
Whether we feel it or not — believe it or not, this is our identity. We live as beloved sons and daughters of God. There’s a temptation to believe the we have to do something amazing or special to be able to bring the Gospel and Christ to people…
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Jesus Receives You as a Gift
“Nobody has ever been for me like this before.” That’s the difference it can make to receive someone as gift. Jesus looked at the disciples and thanked the Father for the gift of them. He looked around at the faces of people he loved and received each of them and all of them as a gift. In their goodness and…
