Just Like Jesus – Max Lucado (Part 2)
Relationships and the Claustrophobia that comes with commitment:
“…that’s when it occurred to me. I am stuck…the courtship was over, and the honeymoon had ended…went from an option to an obligation…from someone to play with to someone to care for…such permanence can lead to panic…”
(Paraphrased) There are three ways to cope: flee, fight or forgive. To flee is to wake up later in another relationship and face the same reality. To fight is to make tension a way of life: to turn the house into a combat zone, the office into a boxing ring.
To forgive: “Oh, I could never do that, you object. The hurt is so deep. The wounds are so numerous. Just seeing the person causes me to cringe…Try shifting your glance away from the one who hurt you and setting your eyes on the one who saved you.”
“But I’ve done nothing wrong…I am not the guilty party here…Neither was Jesus…the burden of bridge building falls on the strong one, not the weak one.”
“Relationships don’t thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.”
Just Like Jesus – Max Lucado (Part 1)
Let Him live long enough in a heart, and that heart will begin to change...God can no more leave a life unchanged than a mother can leave her child's tear untouched.
If you think His love for you would be stronger if your faith were, you are wrong. If you think His love would be deeper if your thoughts were, wrong again.
God's love never ceases. Never. Though we spurn Him. Ignore Him. Reject Him. Despise Him. Disobey Him. He will not change (toward us). Our evil cannot diminish His love. Our goodness cannot increase it. Our faith does not earn it anymore than our stupidity jeopardizes it.
Quotable Quotes
No one is useless in this world
who lightens the burdens of another
~ Charles Dickens
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy.
They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
~ Marcel Proust
Love is the only thing
you get more of
by giving it away.
~ Tom Wilson
In seeking happiness for others
You find it yourself.
~ Unknown
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.
~ Mother Teresa
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