Hollow and empty love

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I think that in one way or another, we have all lived the sad experience of heartbreak. Listening to an “I love you” from someone who just said so to speak, but his behavior was far from showing that as a real experience. Love, in human experience, involves dedication, sacrifice, dying to yourself many times to make the person you love happy. Offering a love to someone in an experience of intimacy, or a beautiful sharing, when there are no problems, in moments of calm and peace, it is very easy. But demonstrating a love you at the time of pain is a very different thing. Someone may never tell you “I love you”, but their actions for you speak loudly in demonstrating that feeling. For the person who receives an “I love you”, but cannot find the action linked to the word, experiences a feeling of pain, a feeling of being used, mocked, betrayed, rejected and sometimes even blame, questioning or feeling unworthy or thinking that  probably did something and deserve not to be loved. It is not an experience you want to live.

But have you ever thought that, if there is someone who has had to listen the most hollows and empty “I love you”, it was God? Telling God “I love you” when you are in the time of praise in the church, or in your time of prayer in your home or in the car, or wherever you have it, is easy. When you remember his blessings and his unmerited favor for you and yours, facilitate that expression that comes from our lips as a melody: “I love you God.”

But how much distance is there from a beautiful “I love you” to a demonstration of obedience? How much desire do I really have to die to myself so that Christ lives in me? How much am I ready to die to my plans, my dreams and my personal goals so that it is His who takes the place? How much am I willing to be transformed and changed in the image of Christ? How much do I value and consider a word that leaves the altar for my life as a word that comes to transform my way of life? How much do I really believe your word and in fulfilling it about me? How much can I see and receive his healing work in my life, that even knowing that by his wounds I am healthy, I continue to declare and receive the disease as a truth in my life? How much do I still call “process” to everything I don’t want or have a hard time doing? A as my pastor says, the blessings that God offers us we want quickly, but the things he calls us to do, we put them into a “process.” We can say- Lord, take me slowly that you know that this is a “process”, but we are not able to say – Lord, bless me slowly, that you know that this is a “process”…

Do not think that I am bringing you a word with which I was not confronted myself. Being able to understand that emotions do not matter in the kingdom as we know them humanely and that an “I love you” for God, together with a life that does not show it with obedience actions, is a hollow and empty “I love you”, worthless and meaningless to God. That is why in his word he told his people: “This people with lips honors me, but their heart is far from me.” As we say in Puerto Rico, “saying it is easy”. Today I invite you to take a look inside and examine your life. Enough of hollow and empty love, “if you do not want to receive from anyone, do not give it to God, He knows more than that. God wants your love through your obedience and not your lips. If you already know what God is asking of you and you are not doing it, today is a good day to start. If you don’t know, today is a good day to ask about your design and purpose. He wants you to know it and start working on it. Blessings

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