Freely

When you’ve got so much love in your heart that you are filled to overflowing and you’ve got no spouse, kids or kin with whom to share that excess what do you do with it?  Well you become a pastor or online speaker, so that love might be spread among as many people as it may, edifying them, encouraging them, calling them to the source that brought you to overflowing.  I am here to give you the love he gave me.  You are the designated recipients of that powerful love, energy and care.  Of course, with love once a giver has determined to offer love it must be understood that the recipient may decline to accept that love, in which case I am going to love you in secret, praying for you. smiling at the mention of your name and sending waves of kindness and care your direction.

Will you help me with this problem, an overabundance of love that seeps from my pores, flows from my fingers in word and has given me a heart too big for one man to carry?  Will you see the gift of grace waiting in reserve with your name upon it and come to Christ that he might fill you up with love, giving you in turn my dilemma?  You may think it odd a man filled with love, even for his enemies to the point where he looks past their sin, illness, oddity or hate to the root of his calling, that they might be healed of it all and be set free by God’s Hand of Mercy.  I don’t know much. In fact. I am constantly reminded of my inadequacies by and enemy and my own self loathing that I am insufficient to this task and that I should immediately quit.  But you see that spurs me on, because of the simple fact that if there is an enemy taking so much time and effort to tell me these things in order to effect my palsy, then what I am doing must be so important, more important then my own feelings or true inadequacies.  What I am doing is the greatest thing any of us can do in life, give love to those who need it freely.

I am no fine example of manhood, talent, style, etiquette or purpose.  What I am is a conduit, a cup, a vessel, vehicle and voluntarily disciple of God to deliver His message of love to a world that without it would die in hopelessness.  We need God.  He Loves us.  He sent me to tell you that.  Simple.  I give what I have been given freely.  Freely I go before God and thank Him for whatever His reasoning for selecting me to do this job of enormous importance.  Freely I walk this path, in love with the Lord and Loving You.  In Jesus’ Name.  Amen.

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