These are all words we use day-to-day to describe those we allocate as being unworthy of our love and attention. Without saying a word we have selfish thoughts that making someone unworthy of our attention. This classification has become an unconscious act and a social norm for society. This toxic way of life has corrupted us, because we try so hard to glorify ourselves; we hold ourselves higher than others by tearing them down for their faults and weaknesses. Our pride has taken control over our minds and corrupted the very thing that God has called us to, and that is to Love without conditions.
This Love is not something we did anything to earn, yet we hold others to this impossible standard of earning our love. This feeling in our hearts that God has made so beautiful our society has managed to corrupt with hate and selfishness. This love is UNconditional and there is nothing we can do for God to earn it. So why do we judge and hold others to a worldly standard? Because we aren't perfect [far from it actually] and ultimately we haven't recognized our own brokenness.
When we recognize our own weakness, and our own brokenness God is able to use us. Because His strength is made perfect in our weakness, our weariness, our lameness, our vulnerability, our in-capabilities our weirdness, our uselessness, and our brokenness all becomes perfect in His name and He is ultimately glorified. Being weak and broken is not a bad thing, I actually consider it a gift God gives us to draw us closer to Him, and 2 Cor 12:9-10 tells us that: [ "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.]
"Humility is not thinking less of yourself' it is thinking of yourself less."
-C.S. Lewis
From My Heart:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2_kOGUypNA
For so long I struggled to love, I was so full of hate and discontent. I fueled my life off of the weakness of others. I compared my strengths with their weaknesses and that was how I thrived, but I was so empty. God broke that pride and showed me how weak and empty I really was. This weakness is not a bad thing and while I might have been embarrassed God showed me that through my weakness He was able to work in my life and use me. I finally recognized that Pride was a distorted picture of life from satan that controlled and destroyed me, but God gives us the amazing and beautiful gift of humility that repaired my heart and mind of the toxic corruption.
Wow! Profound message, powerful wisdom & inspiring insight...Moved me to tears! As I read this, I reflected on the "too often times" prideful condition of my own heart. When it is broken, I am able to experience an awareness of my need for divine repair. "The Lord is close to the brokenhearted" He does heal us with Unconditional Love...
ReplyDeleteProfound declaration, "I fueled my life off of the weakness of others. I compared my strengths with their weaknesses and that was how I thrived, but I was so empty." Galatians 6:3-5 Paul warns, "If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else, for each one should carry his own load."
Personally, I've found when I'm at my weakest that is when I'm closer to God. It is in my brokenness when I see His marvelous grace more clearly and I have a greater appreciation for His love. A very insightful blog Meghan, and I look forward to reading more in the weeks to come.
ReplyDeleteGood job Meg.
ReplyDeleteLove it.