I was pregnant...AGAIN!
I was giddy.
I was shocked.
I was terrified!
Raise your hand if you've been there haha! I hear it all the time... the greatest fear of a mom's heart when she's expecting another baby...
"I don't know if I have enough love for another baby!"
"HOW could I POSSIBLY love another person like I love my first child?"
"What if I'm just not cut out for loving another child?"
"What if this new baby somehow takes AWAY from the love I'm giving the child I already have?"
That's it right there, isn't it? That's where the issue lies. Or should I say, that's where the LIE lies?
Fiends....here's what I've discovered....
We've been doing the math wrong!
We look in the mirror and we see the shape of our body....the edges of the shell in which we live, and we see limits. We see boundaries. We see "only so much" and we assume that our love must be DIVIDED into the number of people we've been tasked with caring for.
We tell ourselves that "Right now I love as much as I can, so that must be my limit. This max that I have to offer has to be DIVIDED and portioned out to all these people."
The natural world confirms this math, right?
There's only so much time. Only so much money. Only so much space. Only so much energy. Only so much...everything! In the natural, we have to divide it up fairly and distribute it so everyone gets what they need...and boy, we do a lousy job of this in so many areas don't we? So we see LACK. We see "not enough". We see limits.
But LOVE MATH is different....because love is not a limited "natural" resource!
Love is not a limited resource because it's fed by an unlimited Source, so there's always MORE to be had.
More than the sands on the shore.
More than the depth of the sea.
More than the stars in the sky.
And even those examples fall short because there is a measurable number of sands on the shore...there is a finite depth of the sea...there are only so many stars in the sky.
Compared to the love that God can fill us with, the number of sands fall short...the sea is far too shallow...the stars too finite. They are not only weak examples....they are infinitely inadequate examples. Breathtaking, isn't it?
So rest easy, mama. If you've been wrestling with thoughts of "I don't have enough love in me to offer another person"....start thinking in terms of multiplication instead of division! Your Source of love is not yourself....it is God - He IS Love, and He is always MORE than enough!
"We have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God and God abides in him." 1 John 4:16
"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God." 1 John 4:7
Lord, thank you for supplying me with even more than I need! Sometimes I feel limited and like I'm just not enough....thank you for the reminder that I am not to trust my feelings because they shift and change by the minute. YOU are true. YOU are enough. YOU are love. YOU never change. And, glory upon glory, it is YOU who lives in me! I trust you, Lord. Please reveal the areas of my life where I need to trust you more, so that I can earnestly surrender those areas and live in full alignment and submission to you. Thank you for being strong in my weaknesses....may I be utterly weak in all areas so your strength shines through to the world! For the building of your Kingdom and that all the world sees and knows your amazing love and grace, Lord Jesus. oxox
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