Kristi Muszik I was so caught up in myself that I didn’t show forth love toward another.
Tears in my eyes as I realized that the day before, at a church gathering, when someone said hi to me, I didn’t stop to take a moment.
I didn’t take a moment to look into their eyes, give them a touch, say hi, feel what they had to say, and let them know that they were loved.
I was caught up in my moment instead of a Jesus moment. A Jesus moment allows Him to minister to a person through us as a willing vessel.
Sometimes, we get so busy doing things that we forget the value of that moment.
Sometimes, we are dealing with pain in our lives that causes us not to see the pain or value the life of another soul.
Those who feel rejected, alone, and do not value themselves usually close themselves off from others, put up a false happy front, or wear an angry expression to hide the pain.
Some will even unconsciously push people away to believe that people will only reject them but yet cry out for love and acceptance.
It’s a vicious cycle; one finds out when one studies the behavior of a human being: one who is full of pain and whose soul seems lost.
It is a cycle of one who will push people away out of fear of rejection yet turn around and cling to people out of desperation for love.
We need to come to a place where we know rejection will come. To deal with it, we must first lay all of our pain at the foot of the cross and keep it there in exchange for true acceptance.
Our true acceptance only comes from our Heavenly Father.
No human being, unless they have saturated themselves with God’s love – very few to find – will ever accept us the way we thrive for acceptance.
We should never look to humanity to fulfill our desperate need for love. Looking to Jesus is the only way we are to thrive. He is a pure love that never disappoints because He is love.
When communicating with another soul, we don’t look at what we can receive as the focus but what we can give. Give them Jesus.
If another soul blesses us with love and acceptance, we receive with gratitude, but we never look to them as our source. God is our source, and what we receive from others is a blessing bonus from God.
Finding our true value is through time spent at the feet of Jesus- A time of being at the altar of giving ourselves to Him so He can exchange us for Him.
The revelation of God’s love for us will help us to love and accept ourselves so that we value the moment with another, for we can’t give love if we aren’t filled with love.
There have been circumstances in life where I have felt the pain of rejection, but Jesus whispers to my heart, “Focus only on loving them.”
Whether people will reject or love us, we focus only on loving them. People can’t love if they don’t know love and how much they are valuable.
Jesus never commanded us…
…to look for love from another human, but He commanded us to love our Heavenly Father first, then love one another.
It’s our responsibility to take the time to pursue the heart of God, hide our heart in His heart, and stop to take a moment for others as the Holy Spirit leads.
One of the critical secrets to keeping the pain away is to follow what Jesus did, as we are always to follow Him.
Found in John 2:24-25 (TPT)
But Jesus had not yet entrusted himself to them because he knew how fickle human hearts could be. He needed no one to tell him about human nature, for he fully understood what man could do.
Jesus didn’t trust himself with human nature, for they love you one moment and dislike you the next.
We are to follow His example and keep our heart in Him, not to give to another but only His love we share.
We turn our focus from receiving from another soul – as our receiving comes from God – to focus on giving Jesus’ love, whether they accept us or not.
If any pain is buried deep in your heart, take it all to Jesus, and let Him fill you with His love that brings healing where healing is needed.
Keep your heart hidden in the heart of God and allow Him to saturate you with His love, overflowing to other souls in desperate need of His Love.
