March 6, 2013
Love Tank
I just
drove from my house to TransWorld Radio in Cary, NC to work on a radio project
for Choose Life. When I left, my gas
tank was full and I was able to drive the entire 266 miles without worrying
about needing more gas. However, now
that I am here and driving around town looking for a place to eat, I am
conscious that my tank is low and I will need to get fuel or I will be stranded
on the side of the road. Wouldn’t it be
nice if we had a constant supply of fuel and we NEVER had to stop for gas (with
the price of gas I KNOW you agree)?
Our heart
has the capacity to love and care for others.
However, like our car’s gas tank, it does not have an unlimited supply
of love. After we give and care for
others over a period of time, our “love tank” needs to be replenished! Sometimes, our desire to have our love tank
filled causes us to love and care for others just so they will love and care
for us. If we operate our every day
lives like this, we run the risk of giving more than we receive and coming to an
end of our capacity to love.
Unlike our
car, we really do have a constant supply of love so that we NEVER really need
to depend on others to fill our love tank.
God’s love for us is unconditional AND constant. No matter whether others love us or care for
us, we are completely loved and cared for by our Heavenly Father. This truth allows us to love others, not to
get something from them, but out of the overflow of God’s love for us!
The Lord appeared
to us in the past, saying:“I have loved
you with an everlasting love; I
have drawn you with loving-kindness.”
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