The Change

Pardon me if I've been acting strange, I haven't been myself lately. What you see is a person rearranged, someone affected me greatly. And I've got so much to say ever since Jesus looked my way... Mercy Me

What I really wanna know is…

Can you see the difference?

Can you see that my heart is so full of love that it is absolutely about to explode?

Some things I have learned along the journey:

Proverbs 13:24 says, “Those who love their children care enough to discipline them”. ENOUGH SAID. I found out a couple of weeks ago that the Song of Solomon is about God and the church. After learning that I had to go back and take a look again at the way God loves me: AMAZING…Check this out:

Song of Solomon 2:16 says, “My lover is mine and I am his”. Ladies, if you are anything like me you could understand this! Imagine someone going after “YOUR MAN” That is the way God feels about us. His property, we are spoken for, this one is taken, back off…all of those things could be written on our foreheads and heaven help the person that tries to come between us…God would definitely put up his dukes to defend us!

Then there was this:

Matthew 22:37–39
Jesus said to him, 'You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' (This was the easy part but then I read this) This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

Pppssssthhhh (this is that noise all the kids make with their mouths)! Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind…I GOT THIS! This is easy right? Just love God. How can you not love God? I mean he is super awesome right?

BUT then along comes this part, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself”! I was stuck…really? Have you met my neighbors? I know what this verse means. It doesn’t mean the person that resides on your left or on your right. It means EVERYONE. EVERYONE is your neighbor. You know I actually said to God out loud,” You know? I could do this when I didn’t love myself very much. The verse says love your neighbor AS YOURSELF and I was pretty mean to MYSELF so I could be mean to my neighbor…lol." That didn’t work. He didn't respond with a LOL. He didn’t find that humorous! Not one bit. God and I really had to talk about this…

This is how it went:

Michelle: What about that girl at work that absolutely REAKS of cigarette smoke every morning. She always wants to hug me. I have to love her?
God: Yes Michelle, I gave you the power to hold your breath just long enough to hug her!

Michelle: Even that one guy that I KNOW without a doubt was trying to get me in trouble with the HR lady at work?
God: Yes Michelle, didn’t that work out in your favor? That wasn’t a coincidence. I work all things out for your good.

Michelle: But what about?
God: EVERYONE. Everyone deserves to feel my love and its time for that love to come through YOU.

So here I go…thinking I am going to spend lots of time holding my breathe and biting my tongue! I am off on my journey to loving the unlovable (in my world) but what I have come to find is that God in me is LOVE and it is easy to love people. It is fun to love people. It’s not nearly as hard as I thought and I am finding that more and more people love ME.