Tuesday, August 12, 2008
by donald miller
on love.
how to really love other people?
- It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.
- The problem with Christian culture is we think of love as a commodity. We use it like money. With love, we withheld affirmation from the people who did not agree with us, but we lavishly financed the ones who did.
- Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them.
- When i am talking to somebody there are always two conversations going on. The first is on the surface, it is about politics or music or whatever it is our mouths are saying. The other is beneath the surface, on the level of the heart, and my heart is either communicating that i like the person i am talking to or i don't. God wants both conversations to be true.
How to really love yourself?
- Love your neighbour as yourself.
- ... He was saying I would never talk to my neighbour the way i talked to myself, and that somehow I had come to believe it was wrong to kick other people around but it was okay to do it to myself.
- If it is wrong for me to receive love, then it is also wrong for me to give it because by giving it I am causing somebody else to receive it, which i had presupposed was the wrong thing to do.
- God's love will never change us if we don't accept it.
TURN YOUR EYES UPON JESUS
12:17 AM
