tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5482141182115705400.post6344123710070760953..comments2023-05-17T05:22:06.607-07:00Comments on Upon Further Review...: Control is not LoveS.A. Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07512483795879732749noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5482141182115705400.post-82292514047399230582013-10-31T19:37:55.263-07:002013-10-31T19:37:55.263-07:00The most powerful expression of love is to encoura...The most powerful expression of love is to encourage the dreamer to present his gift s and dreams back to the one who knows him best, who knit him together in his mothers womb, who has a God-sized, incredible purpose for his life. You are right; it is a gift and we may do with it what we will. But think of the privilege and potential of volitionally presenting it and ourselves to the One who designed us in the first place (Romans 6). This is love that He first loved us and gave Himself for us. Having gone that far, will He withhold any good thing from us? (Romans 8) As for how best to love gifted-others? While trying to control them is certainly not love, encouraging their natural inclinations is not the end-all either.. Holding onto the gift and developing it along the lines of our own imagination and dreams is a natural inclination. Presenting ourselves and our gifts to God is not. Love is to want the highest good, the most meaningful life for our loved one. Encouraging others to place themselves in the loving, creative hands of the God of the universe Himself is the highest love. Cemeteries are filled with the people who have taken their gifts and pursued their dreams, but never dreamed high enough, never dreamed God-sized thoughts, God-sized plans, God-sized experiences, God-sized results, or God-sized lives....and died never realizing their true purpose, therefore died still wondering, still unfulfilled. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07704136767089427795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5482141182115705400.post-18225354492785716832013-10-09T14:18:55.837-07:002013-10-09T14:18:55.837-07:00Absolutely...
Absolutely...<br />teresahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08635297078520708132noreply@blogger.com