{"id":158,"date":"2008-01-06T16:57:41","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T20:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/?p=158"},"modified":"2008-01-07T19:06:53","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T23:06:53","slug":"what-is-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"What is Love?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, I want to be like Him!\u00c2\u00a0 How the cry rings out of my soul, and echoes again and again.\u00c2\u00a0 How I want my heart to be transformed &#8230; not just conformed.\u00c2\u00a0 His yearnings, His love, His visions all stir from deep within my heart, and give me not a moment&#8217;s languish here on this earth.\u00c2\u00a0 To think that He could possibly inhabit me totally and completely seems so impossible, a weak and sinful human being like me.\u00c2\u00a0 But faith says He will, and He does.\u00c2\u00a0 If He will, He may.\u00c2\u00a0 Even so, come, Lord Jesus!\u00c2\u00a0 Slay every morsel of self.\u00c2\u00a0 Cut down every high and lofty thought that is selfish.\u00c2\u00a0 Inhabit my soul, my heart, my love, my life, with the incredible essence of Yourself, Your love, Your life.\u00c2\u00a0 For You have created each one for a specific purpose.\u00c2\u00a0 There is a plan, though different for every person, it is all the same to you &#8230; to bring glory to Your Name.\u00c2\u00a0 Please help your children to lift up their feeble eyes and gaze into their source of life, of strength, and see the purpose for which they each are created.\u00c2\u00a0 You are amazing!\u00c2\u00a0 Words fail me.\u00c2\u00a0 The joy seems to burst forth from faith deep within, and a human heart can scarcely contain Your joy.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, where shall I go to express Your love?<\/p>\n<p>And You say, &#8220;Right here, my child. Right here are your loved ones.\u00c2\u00a0 Your husband, your children are here with hearts just like yours.\u00c2\u00a0 Let\u00c2\u00a0My love fill you to overflowing and let it spill\u00c2\u00a0out on their hearts every day.\u00c2\u00a0 Intercede in the Spirit for their eternal destiny. Love them. Forgive them. And love them some more.\u00c2\u00a0 And there.\u00c2\u00a0 There are the people all around you.\u00c2\u00a0 When you ask them how they are, mean it.\u00c2\u00a0 Let my Love overflow out of your heart and pour over their discouragements, their turmoil, and their pain.\u00c2\u00a0 Lift their trembling, fearful hearts up to Me, for in Me is all the healing, all the Love, all the forgiveness they are looking for.\u00c2\u00a0 Let them see through your very existence that My love for them is established and unchanging.\u00c2\u00a0 Let them see by your willingness to believe and walk in My forgiveness for your own heart that I have forgiven them, I will never stop loving them.\u00c2\u00a0 And let them see by your willingness to release them to Me, their only true Source of love, that I respect their free will, and I give them the choice to accept My unfathomable love for them, and oh, the anguish of true love &#8230; I also give them the choice to reject it and walk away from Me.\u00c2\u00a0 That is love.\u00c2\u00a0 It protects, pursues, and weeps longingly.\u00c2\u00a0 But it never forces.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You are God.\u00c2\u00a0 And I love you!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, I want to be like Him!\u00c2\u00a0 How the cry rings out of my soul, and echoes again and again.\u00c2\u00a0 How I want my heart to be transformed &#8230; not just conformed.\u00c2\u00a0 His yearnings, His love, His visions all stir from deep within my heart, and give me not a moment&#8217;s languish here on this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}