GOD KIND OF LOVE

GOD’S KIND OF LOVE




John 13:34 …“A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another”.



1 Peter 3:7 “Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.”



A certain woman had been diagnosed with breast cancer so severe that the doctors had no choice but to cut off the breast to avoid affecting the other breast. And like most any woman who awakes from this troubling surgery, this deflated her self-esteem the damage to her status was deep. Not only was she dealing with the loss of her breast, but she could see in the mirror how her hair was entangled and her face swollen from reaction to the heavy dose of drugs administered to her



. One day during her stay in the hospital, when her husband entered the room, she burst into tears. "Look at what I look like!" she moaned through her sobs.



Immediately, he left the room and returned soon thereafter with a cart of shampoo, creams, and lotions and makeup kits. He, carried her to the sink, and set her down on his lap, picked her up in his arms. Then leaning her head back over the basin, he washed her hair. He combed it out. He blew it dry. Then with unsteady hand, he applied her makeup the best he could—blush, lipstick, mascara.



She looked at herself in the same mirror that had earlier sent her into convulsions of vanity, and saw someone she recognized: herself. She was back again. All because her man had loved her well through those crucial moments when her world had been crumbling around her.



Today, even though this woman's experience with breast cancer qualifies as perhaps the lowest (wit end) point in her life, one of her favorite moments from all of her marriage has become those few precious moments in her hospital room—when her husband loved her in a way any woman would have understood. Her husband’s love spoke volumes to her and gave her a sense of belonging.



O God, you always keep me sensitive to the exact language of love my mate needs from me—at any individual moment in Jesus name.