Dwell In Truth

Love is how you treat people. Compassion is how you feel about people.

One does not require the other, but both together make a winning combination! 

The price we pay for love is pain.

Love brings joy. Love brings peace. Love brings fulfillment. Love brings purpose. The benefits of love are many. 

But, love has a price. Those we love have the biggest potential to cause us pain.

We feel pain when the one we love is in pain. We feel pain when the one we love breaks our trust. We feel pain when the one we love ignores our needs.

When we choose to love, we choose to suffer for them and because of them.

Some relationships bring more pain than joy. Others bring more joy than pain.  The deeper your love for another, the deeper potential for both joy and pain. If all of your relationships are heavier on pain than joy, your mental health will suffer greatly. 

There is only one relationship that provides pure joy and no pain. This friendship will never cause regret. This connection will never break your trust. His name is Jesus.

The price we pay for love is pain, but Jesus paid that price in full on our behalf.  Jesus paid the price of pain so that we could have pure joy in our walk with Him. 

Do not run from the ones you love lest you find yourself alone and suffering a different kind of pain. Instead, run toward the one who loves you most. He will comfort you in your pain and allow you to continue loving others.

Love is pain, unless that love is in Jesus Christ!

Dwell in Truth: "let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need."
Hebrews 4:16

Jesus is described as a merciful and faithful high priest in Hebrews 2:17. In the Mosaic law the priest would bring sacrifices to God on behalf of the people of Israel. While ordinarily the high priest would bring the sacrifice, Jesus Himself was the sacrifice. His personal sacrifice was an incredible act of mercy.

Because of what Jesus has done for us, we can come boldly and with confidence to the throne of grace-it is no longer a throne of judgment for us; rather, it is where we have received forgiveness in mercy and righteousness in grace.

If your faith is in Christ, you have been forgiven!