I think most people if not all want all of this and long for it.Seeking out acceptance and love in all the wrong places.I am very guilty of this.We all want to be accepted,loved and just want to be heard.I know I do! I have struggled all my life not feeling accepted for who I am,feeling misunderstood and getting frustrated about it and not feeling loved a lot of the time.I have been a christian since I was a small child and have struggled with "does God really love me after I made a huge mistake?" And feeling very rejected and hurt very deep to my core by people.Sometimes these people do not know they have hurt me and they go on like nothing is wrong but yet I am wounded by this hurt.
God knows that we all have been wounded by different things that happened to us in our life.He takes His love and heals up these wounds and loves us where we.He accepts us where we are no matter what we have done in our lives good or bad.He understands us and loves us for who we are even if our family,friends and others reject us.
Zephaniah 3:17 New International Version (NIV)
17 The Lord your God is with you,
the Mighty Warrior who saves.
He will take great delight in you;
in his love he will no longer rebuke you,
but will rejoice over you with singing.”
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 New International Version (NIV)
13 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Bryan Duncan - Love Takes Time has spoke to my heart since its release in the 1990's.It is one of my favorite songs of all time.
I really love Bryan Duncan and his voice is unique,this CD is one of my favorites...He has suffered much loss and tragedy in his life and you can hear his heart pouring out in the songs he records.
Love Takes Time Oh, have you ever been lied to? Maybe mistreated taken for granted 'til you just can't stand it? Were you ever mistaken thought to be someone that you just can't be? So, where's the love you need? (Love takes time please be kind see every part of me) 'Cause I wanna be loved (Love ain't blind ties that bind take on eternity) Oh, would you like to be trusted well, for once in your life? Carry that fire without burnin' each other Are you easily angry? Oh, can you bury your pride? Could you ever forgive me and not keep it inside? (Love takes time please be kind see every part of me) 'Cause I wanna be loved (Love ain't blind ties that bind take on eternity) 'Cause I wanna be loved | (Love takes time please be kind see every part of me) Oh, yeah (Love ain't blind ties that bind take on eternity) Hey make a sacrifice sometimes maybe more than you planned Don't you hate to go through the pain it takes to make a stand A hardened heart or a heartache to admit that you're wrong And though it's hard it hardly matters if that love is gone Make a sacrifice sometimes (Love takes time please be kind see every part of me) 'Cause I wanna be loved (Love ain't blind ties that bind take on eternity, on eternity) (Love takes time please be kind see every part of me, every part of me) (Love ain't blind ties that bind take on eternity, on eternity) (Love takes time please be kind) Please be kind (See every part of me) |
Love Takes Time ,Step By Step ,Blue Skies ,Into My Heart ,Stand In My Place ,Don't Look Away ,I'll Not Forget You ,A Heart Like Mine ,We All Need ,After This Day Is Gone ,Things Are Gonna Change,Traces Of Heaven ,Love You With My Life ,You Don't Leave Me Lonely,Bryan's Hymn