06 Agustus 2023
Bacaan Hari ini: 1 Yohanes 4:18
✍️ "Di dalam kasih ==> tidak ada ketakutan:
👉 kasih yang sempurna
==> melenyapkan ketakutan;
🫵 sebab ketakutan ==> mengandung hukuman dan
✍️ barangsiapa takut, ==> ia tidak sempurna di dalam kasih."
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✍🏻 Rasa tidak aman ==> merusak hubungan.
👉🏻 Namun, begitu Anda membuka kehidupan Anda ==> kepada orang lain,
🫵🏻 meskipun mereka berpotensi
==> menyakiti Anda,
✍🏻 Anda akan hidup dengan jalan yang ==> belum pernah Anda alami sebelumnya.
🤔 Mengapa rasa tidak aman
==> merusak hubungan?
✍️ Karena itu menghambat ==> keintiman.
👉 Anda ingin dekat,
🥺 tetapi Anda juga ==> takut mendekat.
🫵 Anda ingin memiliki hubungan yang erat dengan ==> orang lain,
🥺 tetapi pada saat bersamaan, itu membuat Anda ==> takut setengah mati.
✍️ Anda tak bisa dekat dengan seseorang apabila ==> ada ketakutan di dalam hubungan tersebut.
🔖 Itulah sebabnya tinggal bersama pacar ==> tidak akan berhasil dalam jangka panjang,
📝 sebab di situ tidak ada komitmen ==> seumur hidup.
✏️ Anda tak akan pernah tahu kapan seseorang akan pergi ==> meninggalkan Anda.
🔖 Namun,
✔️ rasa takut ==> lenyap dan
☑️ keintiman–keintiman sejati ==> muncul
👉 ketika dua orang berkata,
💬 "Kami berkomitmen satu sama lain, apa pun yang terjadi. ==> Kami akan membuat hal ini berhasil."
🙄 Apa yang Anda takuti ==> dalam hubungan Anda?
🔖 Mungkin Anda tidak ingin orang tahu seperti apa Anda yang sebenarnya sehingga ==> Anda menyembunyikan diri.
✍🏻 Ini adalah ==> ketakutan yang tertua,
🔖 Adam, ==> manusia pertama.
💬 Dia berkata, ==> "Saya takut karena saya telanjang; ==> jadi saya bersembunyi"
📖 (Kejadian 3:10).
🔖 Ketika Anda ==> merasa takut,
📌 Anda menjadi was-was dan
==> menyembunyikan siapa diri Anda.
📌 Anda menutupi,
📍 bukan hanya secara fisik
📍 tetapi juga secara emosional.
📝 Anda membangun tembok di sekeliling diri Anda dan
✏️ berpura-pura menjadi seseorang ==> yang bukan Anda.
👉🏿 Sementara rasa tidak aman
==> merusak hubungan,
🫵 kasih ==> yang membangunnya kembali.
👉 Kasih ==> mengalihkan fokus Anda dan
🫵 menempatkan fokusnya pada ==> orang lain.
💡 Alkitab mengatakan dalam
==> 1 Yohanes 4:18,
✍️ "Di dalam kasih ==> tidak ada ketakutan:
👉 kasih yang sempurna
==> melenyapkan ketakutan;
🫵 sebab ketakutan ==> mengandung hukuman dan
✍️ barangsiapa takut, ==> ia tidak sempurna di dalam kasih."
🗝️ Satu-satunya cara untuk mengasihi orang lain ialah dengan menyadari bahwa ==> Tuhan mengasihi Anda lebih dari yang Anda bisa bayangkan.
☑️ Anda tak perlu lagi ==> membuktikan diri kepada siapa pun.
✔️ Anda tidak perlu khawatir tentang apa yang dipikirkan orang lain karena ==> Anda menjalin hubungan dengan Yesus.
✅ Anda aman dalam ==> Kasih Karunia Allah.
🔖 Anda mungkin pernah mengalami bencana relasional ==> dalam hidup Anda.
📝 Untuk membuka diri ==> terhadap orang lain dan
✏️ melawan ketidakamanan,
✍️ Tuhan ingin Anda terlebih dahulu ==> membuka diri terhadap Yesus.
Renungkan hal ini:
- Bagaimana Anda melihat ketidakamanan merusak hubungan?
- Apakah Anda puas hanya dengan apa yang Tuhan pikirkan tentang Anda dan bukan apa yang dipikirkan orang lain? Mengapa atau mengapa tidak?
- Seperti apakah secara praktis membuka diri terhadap kasih Tuhan?
Bacaan Alkitab Setahun :
Mazmur 68-69; Roma 8:1-21
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✍️ Biarkan Tuhan mengisi Anda dengan cinta kasih-Nya sehingga.==> Anda dapat membaginya dengan orang lain.
(Diterjemahkan dari Daily Devotional by Rick Warren)
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You Can Love Others Because God Loves You
By Rick Warren
"Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid . . . this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love." 1 John 4:18 (NLT)
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Insecurity ruins relationships. But when you open your life to others, even though they could potentially hurt you, you'll come alive in ways you've never experienced before.
Why does insecurity ruin relationships? Because it prevents intimacy. You long to be close, but you also fear being close. You long to have intimacy with others, but it also scares you to death.
You can't get close to someone if there's fear in the relationship. This is why living with your boyfriend or girlfriend doesn't work in the long run. There's no lifetime commitment. You never know when somebody is going to walk out.
But fear vanishes and intimacy—real intimacy—rises when two people say, "We're committed to each other, no matter what. We're going to make this thing work."
What do you fear in your relationships? Maybe you don't want people to find out what you're really like, so you hide yourself. This is the oldest fear, going all the way back to Adam, the first man. He said, "I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid" (Genesis 3:10 NIV).
When you're afraid, you get insecure and hide who you are. You cover up, not just physically but also emotionally. You build walls around yourself and pretend to be someone you're not.
But while insecurity ruins relationships, love builds them up. Love takes the focus off you and puts the focus on the other person. The Bible says in 1 John 4:18, "Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid . . . this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love" (NLT).
The only way to love others is to realize that God loves you more than you can ever imagine. Suddenly, you don't have to prove yourself to anyone anymore. You don't have to be concerned about what others think because you're in a relationship with Jesus, secure in the Grace of God.
You may have had some relational disasters in your life. In order to open up to others and fight insecurity, God wants you to first open up to Jesus. Let him fill you with his love so you can share it with others.
But fear vanishes and intimacy—real intimacy—rises when two people say, "We're committed to each other, no matter what. We're going to make this thing work."
What do you fear in your relationships? Maybe you don't want people to find out what you're really like, so you hide yourself. This is the oldest fear, going all the way back to Adam, the first man. He said, "I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid" (Genesis 3:10 NIV).
When you're afraid, you get insecure and hide who you are. You cover up, not just physically but also emotionally. You build walls around yourself and pretend to be someone you're not.
But while insecurity ruins relationships, love builds them up. Love takes the focus off you and puts the focus on the other person. The Bible says in 1 John 4:18, "Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid . . . this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love" (NLT).
The only way to love others is to realize that God loves you more than you can ever imagine. Suddenly, you don't have to prove yourself to anyone anymore. You don't have to be concerned about what others think because you're in a relationship with Jesus, secure in the Grace of God.
You may have had some relational disasters in your life. In order to open up to others and fight insecurity, God wants you to first open up to Jesus. Let him fill you with his love so you can share it with others.
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