The best receivers are the best givers. As someone who always put my servanthood first, without this truth, I was trying to pour out of a cup that was running dry. I wasn’t very good at accepting love from others, but I felt the strong urge to serve and love others. Where my servanthood and love was coming from was something I needed to reexamine. I first needed to find whose I was. If you can’t receive the Lord’s love, you can’t give the Lord’s great love to others.
Knowing my service is not needed is something I had to come to accept. Not that my service wasn’t of value, but that it did not come before my sonship. Before being a son or daughter of God. I had to walk in my identity first. I had to knock down my old, broken, weak temple and start anew. To lay the cornerstone of my identity as a son of God and to build up from there. As I build upon the temple, the beautiful part is that it doesn’t matter how tall or how grand it is. Because it is on a firm foundation, no matter what I have, I can use it for the glory of God and love others to the fullest from where I am at.
When we first understand this truth of the Gospel, that is when we freely give what we have freely received. The love of God fills our cup to the brim and as we pour out that love to others the Lord continues to pour into us. We are also able to receive the love poured out from those around us. The best givers are the best receivers. The more you can receive God’s love for you, the more you can give this great love to those around you. Your servanthood will fall into place, and you will love, because God first loved you.
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Book Recommendation: “Spiritual Slavery to Spiritual Sonship” by Jack Frost
This book will help reveal whose you are as a foundation before all else.
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Wow, Sammy!! I’m going to have to digest that for a while. God is certainly working within you. Thanks for sharing your insight!!
Love, Gramma J.
“Not that my service wasn’t of value, but that it did not come before my sonship.” and “The more you can receive God’s love for you, the more you can give this great love to those around you. Your servanthood will fall into place, and you will love, because God first loved you.”
SUCH good things!!