This life I live

Accepting people unconditionally is IRRESPONSIBLE ACCEPTANCE.

By just "accepting people as they are", often what we mean by that is we won't challenge you even if you're going downward in a depressive cycle or a cycle that only leads to eternal death. 

Part of this is because we don't want to be "harsh" on people. Well, don't be harsh, be HELPFUL!

1 Cor 10:13 God will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape.

More often than not, when we feel depressed, we avoid God. We avoid people. We avoid all the means God has given to us for help.

Why can’t we feel this help? Because if we are truly honest with ourselves, sometimes, we don’t want to be helped in this way. We want to be helped in our own way. Like how we want to be loved in ways that WE want to be loved. Whats worse sometimes we don’t even want to be helped at all. We want to wallow. 

We want to define help by what WE think is helpful to us. The way God does it, is too difficult, too hard to understand, I don’t like to read, I don’t find it applicable or relevant to me, people are too confrontational, or that I don’t feel comfortable sharing these things with others.

I often ask my husband whether he loves me. 

His reply - always a wondrous look, as though asking “Are you seriously asking me that, after all we’ve been through?”

Sometimes that doesn’t satisfy me. I still don’t feel loved, cos he didn’t give me what i wanted. We feel like we need to feel loved in our way to know that we are loved.

But God has shown his love for us two thousand plus years ago. And we sometimes can’t quite be convinced of that, because its just so far in the past. I don’t feel it today, I don’t feel it when i’m struggling day to day, I don’t feel the love when I am just numb from the pains of life. 

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