Love is something each of us crave as human beings. Even animals and pets seek love. Love is an intense feeling or deep affection. A baby craves a mother’s love and bonding. How often we long for love, but only to face rejection? As teenagers (well adults too) we may have fallen into the trap of infatuation and it wasn’t love, but only lust for our own selfish pleasure.
One of the most defining moments of love is when that trust is broken in a relationship. You have been taken advantage of or even violated. The lies, the cheating, the gossip, the tearing down and hatred drive you further away emotionally or physically. You are having an awful time to forgive only building walls of mistrust. Maybe you have been on the other side and have taken advantage of somebody violating that trust. You lost your job due to unethical behavior. Stole money from work or family members, or even harassed somebody. You crave forgiveness, yet the price of the consequences is too heart wrenching. Like they say with divorce ‘it always takes two’!
Whatever side you have experienced, God seems to get the brunt of the choices. The walls are up and unforgiveness toward that person or even God continues to wear you down.
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?” Romans 8:35 NIV
Friend, no matter what you are facing God’s love is unconditional, He is ready to forgive and embrace you, if you will allow Him to love you. Forgiveness can be difficult and pride can block this access, because we ignore God’s desire to connect or reconnect with us. God the Father has an intense desire to fellowship with you. God’s Spirit has feelings and emotions too. Just read the Prodigal Son. Luke 15.
Luke 15:18-20, 24 NLT “I will go home to my father and say, “Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, and I am no longer worthy of being called your son. Please take me on as a hired servant.”’ “So he returned home to his father. And while he was still a long way off, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him. for this son of mine was dead and has now returned to life. He was lost, but now he is found.’ So the party began.” Luke 15:18-24
“Bearing graciously with one another, and willingly forgiving each other if one has a cause for complaint against another; just as the Lord has forgiven you, so should you forgive. Beyond all these things put on and wrap yourselves in [unselfish] love, which is the perfect bond of unity [for everything is bound together in agreement when each one seeks the best for others]”. Colossians 3:13-14 AMP
My Friend may this be the weekend you move forward in life as you release everything to God. 💜💚💙
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Greetings! My name is Andy Provitola and I live in New England on the South Shore between Boston and the beautiful Cape Cod region.
The purpose of my blogging and writing is to encourage you in your journey here on planet earth. Life is full of pressing issues and problems and my desire is to discover a place for peace, hope, healing, and contentment. I am a follower of Jesus Christ – God’s one and only Son and I discovered these truths along my own personal journey.
Having discovered a personal relationship with God the Father through Jesus Christ does not mean I have to be religious to attain the rewards of heaven. The fact is God provides grace for us and accepts us as we are in His image. In other words, we cannot attain heaven or life eternal on our own, but by God’s loving grace and no merit of our own. Simply by accepting Him by faith and believing.
My goal is to continue to find a balance of life from a spiritual and practical perspective with a purpose to please and glorify God in all that I do because of His ‘Gift of Grace’.
God is not transcendent and so far away that he is out of reach with humanity. God desires that His presence lives within us and not just in the galaxies and the universe. Experiencing the unconditional love of God has been so rewarding and while discovering the truth and purpose for my life. Moving forward in this life is not a sprint, but a marathon when it comes to this race here on earth.
I am blogging because I find it is a good way to connect in a much more effective and efficient way when it comes to communicating and interacting with people that I know or do not know. Blogging and writing challenges me and also stretches me specifically in my thoughts, my mind, my emotions, and my spiritual life. To live a vertical relation with God and a horizontal relationship with others.
There will be a variety of topics and subjects to address including youth, young adults, family, singles, seniors, relationships, etc. Some of the topics will include God’s creation and power, depression, loneliness, suicide, hope, healing, setbacks, financial matters, business, stress, anxiety, care, encouragement, and so much more.
I would like to connect with all walks of life, ethnicity, culturally, other religions, socio-economics, and in so many more ways.
I am currently writing a book and several memoirs about my own life and journey . The journey begins at a young age growing up in Malden, Massachusetts, specifically Maplewood Square to where I am today. I became paralyzed from the waist down as a senior in high school and I share how my life changed for the better!
“But I do not consider my life as something of value or dear to me, so that I may [with joy] finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus. To testify faithfully of the good news of God’s [precious undeserved] grace [which makes us free of guilt of sin and grants us eternal life]. Acts 20:24 Amplified Version
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