What you Love Will Change You”
(Picture of Chihuahua held in hand)
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. (Colossians 3:2 – AKJV)
I heard about a woman in the advance stages of Anorexia who was on the point of dying. She had virtually given up the will to live.
This woman’s sister, desperate to do something to help her conceived the idea of giving her a pet to care for. At first her gift did not appear to change things, but gradually, as love for the animal took hold of her she began to be concerned for what would happen to her pet if she died. Fear of what would happen to her animal friend so took hold of her it overwhelmed her fear of putting on weight. She began to eat and was eventually restored to full health. Love for her pet had transformed her in both body and mind.
The above example shows the positive result of learning to love some living creature other than yourself. It can transform your life – positively.
There are, however, negative consequences of loving someone or something to the exclusion of everything else. The case of a man who becomes a workaholic in the pursuit of financial security mace end up neglecting his wife and family and may even lose them as a consequence. He may tell himself he is doing it all for them, but the pursuit of riches have changed his natural desire to provide for his family into an obsession.
Without using too many examples women may be so concerned with keeping up with fashion and maintaining their good looks that they become obsessed with it. They begin to judge others by the way they dress and how they look, instead of valuing them for who they are.
Now there is nothing wrong with wanting to look good and making a good impression, just so long as it does not have a negative influence upon your character.
Focusing on loving God, doing His will, and loving our neighbour will keep us balance, an have the end result of making us more like Jesus
© Wednesday 26th October 2005 – by Christopher Shennan)
I’m flying straight now, Lord,
With Your Wind beneath my wings,
The crooked paths behind me,
And my wayward heart now sings.
It sings because the secret
Was whispered from above:
“You’ll always be transformed
Into what you truly love.
“It’s a law of life unchanging,
It’s a principle so true,
That whatever you love and cling to,
Will end up changing you.
Be it idols you have cherished;
Be it wealth, or fame, or pleasure,
Will cast you in its likeness;
You’ll become a blight, or treasure.”
So I seek to choose more wisely
What I set my heart upon,
The thing I choose will change me
Into what I focus on.
So I set my love upon
The beauty of my King,
And trust tin time my life
Will be a lovely thing.
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