I wonder if Paul found that the people he loved the most were the hardest to love? If the ones who he grieved over tended to be the ones who cut him the deepest? Whereas God will never harm us, it seems the people we love the most are the ones who burden us the most. At times they are the ones who cost us the most.
God tells us he will never give us more than we can handle, but it feels like, at times, I can't take anymore. Where faith in him is required at all times; it is when I can no longer give anymore of myself when God has to take over. When there is nothing of me left is when God has to fill me up.
Jesus grieved for the lost. His heart was with the lost. It was also the lost that caused him great suffering, but it was those that were closest to him that hurt him deeply. Judas betrayed him, Peter denied him, and daily, saved people sin ever though he died to save us.
I wonder if, like me, Paul shed more heartfelt tears over those closest to him? How are we to continually love those who throw our love back when we are but mere humans? Thank goodness God is there to build up our weaknesses so we can continue to love whole heartedly those we have a burden for!
2 Corinthians 2:4
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