Faith-bearing Seed for the Soul
"While the earth remaineth,
Seedtime and harvest
....shall not cease"

Genesis 8:22

Bind us Together in Love . . .

Some years back there was a chorus that went sort of like this:

Bind us together, Lord, bind us together

With cords that cannot be broken,

Bind us together, in love.

It seemed like any time there was schism in the church Body, we nearly wore that song out. I got to where I could tell when someone was leaving the church, or if there were problems, by how much that chorus was sung.

I wonder what that chorus made the people having the problem feel like? Think they visualized themselves being bound together with someone, or others, that didn't understand them? That didn't really love them or care about them. That would be a pretty awful position to find yourself in, wouldn't it? Closely bound together with people that you didn't want to be bound with, with cords that could not be broken? Would God do such a thing?

I've seen television documentaries where children who have been abused fight being loved, especially when they were hurt by someone that was  supposed to be showing them love. I often wondered why they fought what they needed and probably wanted most of all, to be loved. Finally, the counselor would take the child, hold them as close to them as they could, the entire time the child was kicking and screaming, and finally the child calmed down, and broke into a horrific cry and surrendered to the love of the counselor. I think we can be hurt so often and so much, that God Himself has to find the right person or persons to love us, and then He binds us to the love of them until the fear of being hurt more and again, and over and over has dissipated.

I John 4:16

God is love.

I John 4:18

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.

Ezekiel 34:16

I will seek what was lost and bring back what was driven away, bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick....

In Isaiah 61:1 it says that Jesus, partly, came to bind up and heal the broken hearted. It makes sense that when a heart has been broken from insufficient love, it must be bound to "perfect love" to be healed, just like a broken bone has to be bound to something perfectly straight to heal properly. And, just like a break that has healed improperly has to be re-broken and re-set, we have to take another chance at love to be healed properly with His love.

Is there someone in your life that fits this description? No matter what you do, they seem to reject your love? Realize that it is NOT YOU they are rejecting, but that it is the hurt they are expecting to reoccur again if they open up to you, that is causing them to reject your love. There is a way to help them...allow the Lord to bind you together in His love with cords that cannot be broken. Ask Him to do this, and He will.

Ecclesiastes 4:12

One standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer; three is even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken.

Especially when that THIRD CORD is Jesus, Who is all that true love could ever be!

If you are the person that has been abused or hurt, open your heart up to the Lord first, let Him fill it with His love so you will be able to receive the love of others. There will probably be some forgiveness required on your part for this to happen. And then, trust Him with your heart. His love is great enough, wide enough, long enough, and perfect enough to protect you and to bring you into the fulness of God.

Ephesians 3:17-19

That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fulness of God.

Rooted and grounded in the love of Christ Jesus,

Marlene,

Texas Seed Sower

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