People are Good for You
People are designed to need God and to need people as well, in fact, there are many important things we can’t fully receive apart from people.
We all need acceptance; it is the cry of everyone to be accepted. We try to dress right, look right and talk right just to fit in. We know we are accepted by God but often we struggle to know it in our heart. What can help us is the acceptance of people? When acceptance also comes from Gods people, we can feel love. We need God with skin on; someone who Jesus is “wearing.”
Often people that live in isolation, nearly always feel bad about themselves. Often they feel guilty. They reason, if I feel lonely, I must not be loved and if I'm unlovable it must be because I'm bad.
Grace is the foundation of all true success and life from God. Everything we receive; everything you have; including grace itself is by grace. 1Peter 4.10 Grace is something that has to come from outside of us; from God or others. God uses His Body to dispense His grace. Many of Gods gifts to His children, come to us through the Body. Knowing God’s love and forgiveness also goes from our head to our hearts, when we experience it through His people.
Friend, we receive Life from God only, but often He dispenses it to us, through His body the Church. Find a true friend today or reach out to the one you trust already.
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Bonding
Studies show us that any child that doesn't bond with its mother and father is more likely to have relationships affected by emotional problems. Without bonding, children, teenagers and even adults are hindered in their growth to emotional maturity, continuing to act like children. People like Lee Harvey Oswald the killer, who shot President Kennedy. On November 22, 1965, he fired two shots into the head of the President; a man who represented good looks, brains and respect. His killer had all the classic handicaps; his mother was domineering and a brawler; she was not gentle or nurturing and even beat up her three husbands. She gave the boy no affection and no discipline. The school psychologist said that Oswald probably didn't know the meaning of love. He dropped out of the Marines because he couldn't accept discipline or authority and married a foreign girl who mocked him treating him like a kid. He was often locked in the bathroom or out of the house, till he came begging. One day he took the rifle from the garage and climbed to the sixth floor. Inadequacy, lack of loving relationships with his parents and sin, had bred a monster. A person who has not bonded with parents and others later in life will have little basis for morality. A mother doesn't hold her child because she should but because she wants to; she loves that baby. Friends don’t visit their friends in the hospital because they should but because they love them.
Friend, the bond of love is always a more powerful motivation than morality or doing what is right. Jesus said love is the fulfilment of the law. Let His love fill you today and live free!
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