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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

UNLEASHED LOVE

Unleashed Love

The wealthiest people in life, the most successful people in life, the most sought after people in life, and the greatest innovators of life are all problem solvers. Not problem finders.
It needs to be stated that anyone with a pulse can walk into any room and situation and any circumstance and find problem and fault. There is absolutely nothing special about that.  The skill and gift of solving the problem is rare.

How many times have you called out to a friend. How many times have you had a situation you needed to talk about so you call a friend or go meet with someone. You pour your heart out you spill your insides out to them and without even a pause your friend is reinforcing all the negatives that you just shared. Or they pull their bible out and read scriptures to you and begin a venture of showing you how unspiritual you are.  We have a problem in the Body of Christ.  We have an issue. One that has been drilling my heart for some months now but I have not bothered to share because I am not a problem finder I am a problem solver.  But to get to the solution we have got to understand the totality of the problem we have to see this thing and the damage it is doing.


There is no shortage of books and Christian motivational speakers. And Mens ministry is on the rise which on the outside looking in or to the surface observer you would think that the Body of Christ is filled with a multitude of strong God fearing people loving men. And I will give you the bennifift of the doubt. I am not trying to be over critical hear. But there is a growing segment of men in our Body and locol fellowships that are hurting. They are wounded. And we have begun retreating we have stopped sharing our burdens with eachother and we no longer cofess our sins to one another the way the bible says to.  I believe its because we as a body have lost the art of just listening and loving.  We all want to be the solution minded people God created us to be and we all want to be the person with the golden nugget of truth that unveils sin exposes it and heals it all in one fail swoop. We read the books take the seminars sit in the front row take notes and get all fired up then when John from such and such church reaches out to us we hear the headlines of the stuff then we begin quoting him all the TBN footstomping good doctrine we just learned and show this man how spiritual we have become through all the books we have read…What happens next is crazy. John hurting recognizes that something is not right can’t place his finger on it exactly but doesn’t respond with oh my goodness your so right response. So what we do is throw a coleism at him or tell him to just man up.

We failed to listen …we failed to love this person. We failed to respond with the heart and mind of  Christ in compassion. Now John is not just wounded by the original thing but now has another burden to carry because we as his brothers did not sit silent and listen.

Listening to someone is loving them in a very intimate way. Not just hearing them. Right now I have my tv on in the background I hear it loud and clear but I am not listening to it. The art of listening is gone….It breaks my heart.  Now guyes like that fictitious John don’t share they keep their burdens bottled up they don’t confess their sins to eachother because we spend more time condemning the actions and judging the situation then we do seeing and loving the people in them. Jesus came and concerned himself not with the surrounding circumstances time and again. We read so often the verbal responses that Jesus shared but we gloss over the times he remained silent.  He listened. He did not just hear.

I want to get back to listening in my life so I can do a better job of loving the people I am around.  The solution is actually not more words they have already been spoken we have heard them all. The solution is not more books they have all been written.  The solution is more listening. I am so greatful that I have people in my life who care enough about me to just listen at times. I am so greatful that I am loved.

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