The God Who LOVES You is Your Source
/Anyone who is thirsty may come to me!
Anyone who believes in me may come and drink!
For the Scriptures declare, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from his heart.’”
John 7:37-38 NLT
My husband is not my source of unconditional love
and
I am not his source of unconditional love!
It’s nice when we hit it right and make each other feel loved, but even that is short lived if we are looking to each other to fill our tank of need for love.
ONLY GOD is ENOUGH to fill my bottomless pit of need.
and
ONLY GOD is ENOUGH to fill his bottomless pit of need.
Really, NO ONE on this earth is enough to fill my need for love — not my husband or kids or grandkids or relatives or friends or anyone.
and
I AM NOT enough to fill anyone else’s need for love — not my husband or kids or grandkids or relatives or friends or anyone.
What happens if I expect another to fill my bottomless pit of need?
I can get needy and grasping and disappointed and bitter … and it can all go dark in my soul.
And what if I am trying to be someone else’s source of bottomless love?
I give out of obligation, not out of want to. I give to get approval or love. I try to keep the person OK so they don’t get upset or disappointed. I rescue. And it all gets HEAVY.
And over the course of all my years on this earth, I’ve been guilty of it all and more.
But I’ve come to know that there is a healthy detachment from trying to be “Messiah” to loved ones and others. And that is because there’s a passionate attachment* to living from the indwelling Christ who is my Source.
So then His promise is that out of my innermost being will flow rivers of Living Water…the Spirit.
And the good news is I can be God’s instrument, the conduit of His Love to my loved ones and others.
So then HE is the Source. Others are not and I am not.
HE is my SOURCE ALWAYS and FOREVER.
And as I keep “drinking of Him” in my everyday life, His Spirit can flow from me into situations around me.
What about you, dear friends.
Are you looking to another to fill your bottomless pit of need for love?
Let them off the hook!
ONLY GOD!
Are YOU trying to fill someone else’s need for love? Are they expecting you to be God to them?
Let yourself off the hook!
ONLY GOD!
Drink of Jesus and ask the HOLY SPIRIT to fill them and you. He will do it — sometimes even through you, but not always and not completely!
Amen.
PS Thanks for listening to my ramblings.
