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Love Lets It Go
In our attempts to learn how to love, we find that not everyone is as easy to love as others.
We sing the song, “How sweet to hold a newborn baby...” Wait until that baby gets older...
Some of those sweet babies are now demanding, disappointing, destructive or difficult people.
How does love react to the pressure people in our lives?
Be Tactful, Not Just Truthful
If you want to get through, this verse is for you!
Be Understanding, Not Demanding
Love does not insist...
One test is how we treat the people who serve us.
Start being polite in the home.
MacDonalds trained their employees to say please and thank you when they passed on your order to others.
What if others are demanding of you?
Don’t sink to their level.
This takes a look at the bigger picture.
In other words, don’t base your response to another person on how they treat you.
Base your response on how you wish they had treated you!
Be Gentle, Not Judgmental
Two reasons why we shouldn’t be judgmental.
First, we are not God.
Second, they are not God.
The issue is not that we don’t tell the truth.
The issue is that we use our truth as a club to get the other person.
The idea behind perverseness is that something is twisted.
Your twisted motives can destroy the nice sounding words coming out of your mouth.
A twisted logic can make your truth a lie.
Your twisted emotions can betray insincerity.
But a gentle tongue is a tree of life.
It looks for fruit.
It looks for solutions.
It looks for progress.
What if you are the object of anger at work?
Don’t spontaneously quit or go on a rant.
Give yourself time before you do any kind of action.
Don’t Repeat It, Delete It!
When we face difficult people and we remember the last encounter we had with them we do one of three things, maybe more than one.
We relive it in our minds which builds resentment.
We bring it back up to them, which creates conflict.
We tell others how bad they are, which is gossip.
God wants us to let it go!
More damage has been done by gossip than by almost anything else.
We cannot resist telling other people the bad news item about someone else.
“Did you hear what so-and-so did? “ Or, “You have no idea how so-and-so treated me.
Let me tell you the story.”
A number of years ago I went to a conference where the speaker gave this definition of gossip.
Gossip: sharing information with people who are not part of the problem or part of the solution.
This definition has led me to understand who needs to hear what I have to say.
I will share with people who are part of the problem.
I will share with people who are part of the solution.
It’s gossip if I share it with anyone else.
Read this verse very carefully.
What if you have been hurt in unimaginable ways?
What if you are carrying a hurt that is so bad that you are afraid to share it with anyone?
What if that hurt was done by someone close to you?
Does this verse say that you are to treat things as if they never happened?
No!
It is asking you to face whatever happened head on.
Acknowledge what happened.
Pretending it didn’t happen doesn’t help anyone.
Glossing over it is just lying to yourself.
Here is the real question.
Are you going to allow that hurt to rule your life?
Is that hurt so prominent that it pushes you to hatred and even further into strife?
Sometimes we can be unusually upset at Person A because we remember what Person B did.
When that happens Person B rules our lives.
Don’t give them that much power and permissions.
Instead of repeating it, nurturing the pain, make a decision to let go of your need to make them pay.
Let God handle that.
Chose instead to respond, not out of pain, but out of the love that God has put in your heart.
You can choose to be tactful not just truthful.
You can choose to be understanding and not demanding.
You can choose to be gentle and not judgmental.
You can choose to delete it and not repeat it.
What is amazing that often our hurt, pain and the way we deal with it doesn’t cause anything to get better.
It’s time to let it go.
It’s time to let it go by allowing God to rule in your life.
It’s time to let it go by dealing with the sin against you God’s way, not your way.
It’s time to let the love of God rule in your heart.
If any of you have been touched, moved to challenged to take any action as a result of the 40 Days of Love, I would like you to do one of two things.
First, write on the sheets a lesson learned or a testimony.
Second, I would like you to write me a letter or send an email telling me what God is doing in your life.
I would like you to answer one or two questions.
First, may I share the story from the pulpit if I think it would be an encouragement to others?
Second, may I use your name?
I will respect whatever you say.
But God is not glorified in our silence, but in our witness to his work in our lives.
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