Monday 3 July 2017

Wounds and Love

Hello All,

Have you been wounded by someone’s words and actions?

Are there wounds that have left scars in your heart and some that are still bleeding?

  
Wounds and Love
By Joanne Liaw Sook Ling
Dedicated to a dear friend for inspiring the poem

Are there wounds that run too deep?
Would those wounds completely heal?
Your courage you try to keep
Your bleeding wounds you conceal

You've opened your heart to love
But your heart keeps getting hurt
'Should I hide my heart in a glove?'
'Why invest my heart and effort?'

'Should I protect my heart with walls?'
'Keep myself safe from great pain?'
Suffering came after the Fall
We get hurt again and again

Christ opened His heart to us
We've spurned Him again and again
His love was deep and courageous
On the cross, He bore our pain

It's the cross that gives us courage
To break down our protective walls
To free our hearts from their cage
God's love causes walls to fall

God's love invigorates our hearts
We love others with His love
It is God's love we impart
Divine love that comes from above

I may hurt you; you may hurt me
But I'll still love you, my friend
God's love resides within me
A love that knows no time and end


Points for Reflection:
We love because God first loved us.
(1 John 4:19 ESV)
·       Opening your heart to someone – a spouse, family member, or friend – requires courage. Doing so may have left you wounded and afraid to open your heart to anyone again. ‘Never again!’ are the words that many have sworn to themselves.
·       If you can feel the intensity of the pain that reeks from the wounds in your heart, have you ever thought of the pain that Christ endured out of His love for sinners who spurned Him and spat on Him with contempt? Sinners like us who continually reject Him as the Lord of our lives. Sinners who seek ultimate satisfaction in someone or something else instead of in Him.
·       But the cross gives us the courage to break down our protective walls and free our hearts from their cage. God's love causes walls between us to fall. The cross gives us the courage to open our hearts and be vulnerable with others.
·       Opening our hearts to other sinners hurts. We hurt others and others hurt us because we are unable to love perfectly. But God loves us perfectly. And even if the whole world turns against us, we know that His love stands true.

·       We love others because He first loved us.

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