Stay Safe

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 For me, life is becoming all about living for God and not myself because when i live for myself, i'm going


to wind up offending somebody anyway. HIV medication ads are stomach turning to watch.  It frightens me that i once lived that lifestyle.  Living for God presents better choices because i am answering to Him and am not focused on my own selfish needs.  God loves and He's for me.  i'm able to meditate on the love He has for me.  That's why i'm here on this earth!  So God can love me!  How could anyone dispute that?

He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? --[Romans 8:32] He gave me His Son, so i know He'll give me more love than i could even give myself or from other worldly individuals.  He knows what i need.  When i love myself, my ego gets in the way and other people irritate me and i focus on the irritations and if i were to focus on the love of God and start living for Him on a daily basis, then the irritations of others won't even enter my concerns.

i declare Him boldly as my one true Friend, the One i can turn to unconditionally, the One i can trust.  He doesn't have any motives; all He has is love.  God is love.  Jesus is the Love Incarnate.  There was no love in the superficial relationships i once had or in the interactions displayed on some HIV medication ad.  i can read about and observe the egotistical me!  me!  me!  attitudes in others and think that i am no better than they are.  Faith in God the Father and in the Son, my Lord and Savior, is what saves me.  It's all about the love that saves me and keeps me safe.  i can stay safe because He loves me, the reason i'm here is to be loved.  What better reason do i need?

For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible., whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers.  all things were created through Him and for Him. -- [Colossians 1:16]

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