jon foreman and tears

Do you ever just feel like crying,

like all of the stuff inside you is anxious and wants to visit

another atmosphere.

No longer your soul and spirit, but your person

and the people around you..

I think we should let it out. Because maybe it won't always

come out in tears.

Maybe it will and

that's okay, that's actually great! We need to cry. I admire

so many people who have the freedom to do it when and where they feel it,

and the ones they love appreciate and support that corner of their soul,

instead of push it down

it can sometimes come

out

in

LOVE.

"7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love." (1 John, chapter 4 NKJV)...visit the orphan and widow in their oppression..keep oneself unstained from the world...your body is a sanctuary...do you not know that you are His holy temple?...And everyone present was filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in other languages, as the Holy Spirit gave them this ability...Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value a man who speaks the truth...Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person...Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving... (Jms 1:27, Rmns 12, 1 Cor 6:19-20, Acts 2:4, Prv 16, Col 4)

These are just a few ways to love people, and there are hundreds more.

So what does letting it out have to do with

loving others

have to do with God being love?

We were made in His image

we were made to reflect His love,

HE is love,

so we reflect

LOve.

What is love? (baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more!!) haha sorry..

• Love is putting other first, Philippians 2:7 ays that HE made Himself nothing, taking the form of a servant. He is love, we were made in His image, this is what He did, so we do it.


• Don't be a people pleaser, "but speaking the truth in love, may [we] grow up into HIM in all things, which is the head, even Christ" (Eph. 4: 15).


• Pray for others, God is not your personal vending machine! "that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone.." 1 Tim 2:1

Don't put your lamp under a basket...don't hide it under the crown you've made for yourself by what people think of you..Luke 8:16

"The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it." John 1:5, no one can open a box of darkness and let it out...darkness cannot overtake light. Open your closet, the darkness is now changed because of the light. The only way darkness prevails is if the light hides itself, just as "evil can only prevail if good men do nothing." -Edmund Burke.

Let us not be good men who do nothing.