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22 October 2001 Beloved special friend of mine, Your friendship is a sacred trust to me. Well, as so very often happens, I am thinking of you. What am I thinking? I believe that it is somehow important for me to tell you. I don't know why, but, I want to tell you, and, in detail. Your life is very important to me. Why? I guess that I am really not sure. Let me talk about it for a few minutes. I know that it is not because I am lacking in friends and therefore feel some kind of a sick and desperate need to hang on to you for dear life, for fear of losing you.
It is more like I am so very filled with wonder at the sweetness of your life poured forth to Christ, at the Love God has for me, f or the lovely miracle of your friendship.
God has placed within my heart, a deeeeep and abiding love and respect and appreciation of you.
This letter is not a secret bootleg message to just you. No, this is NOT a letter of romance or of sexual attraction. But it IS a letter of deeep appreciation. I care for you deeeply, tenderly, respectfully. Saint Friend, I salute you. To flatter you? No, I don't think so. One time some brothers accused me of flattery. I believe that it was the only time in my life I have been accused of flattery. I guess that I would define flattery as complimenting someone insincerely, or, perhaps, with improper motivation. I am not sure if one could compliment another excessively, I suppose so, but, and, I guess I will have to watch out for that where you are concerned, but, like I tried to explain those guys who accused me of flattery: the "King's Greatest Secret" that the Lord revealed to me 41 years ago this November, resulted in my being given a really deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep love for God's people, that I have never lost. One reason that I love people deeeeeeeeply is because I love Christ deeeeeeply, and I realize that He Himself, the Christ Who died for me, the Creator King of Everything, the One they tell Bible stories about, the One some people sing about at Christmas time and Easter time, lives inside of you, I mean, Jesus actually LIVES inside of you, and, therefore, I must restrain myself from loving you, as much as I love Him, because it is this same Jesus, this same Father God, this same Holy Spirit, Who is such a deep and intricate part of your life. Oh, I do not worship you. I realize that you can sin if you want to, against God, against me, against my dear ones. But, I do not expect you to sin. Love believes the best. And, I am believing the best about you. Why am I writing all of this? Frankly, I do not know. It is somewhat of a mystery to me. It could be for one of the following reasons: The time may come when the moment for thanking or encouraging will pass: it could be that one of us will be raptured, or you might move away, or maybe I am going to die, soon, or, God forbid, perhaps you are going to die, soon, or something, or something could happen that would hurt our friendship, because, maybe the enemy might try to destroy our friendship, or you might become offended at me, or, maybe you or I will have a stroke or not be able to communicate, some catastrophic thing might happen like war or - - - -. But, the Bible encourages us to encourage each other. The Bible commands us to do good to each other. The Bible commands us to love each other, and To love each other FERVENTLY out of a pure heart. The Bible commands us to give honour to whom honour is due. I honor you for being my friend. I honour you for loving me. And, as I said, I honour the Christ within you. People who love and appreciate and respect each other on this level, will not dislike, disrespect or sin against each other. They would not wrongly try to hurt or neglect each other. Oh, I am not talking about the kind of hurt that can come that is within the will of God. For example: The Lord may direct me to speak a word of correction into your life, like: (Or, God might ask you to say to me:) "You seem to have something from your nose on your cheek.", or, "Your fly is open." or, "You have a roll of toilet paper stuck in your waist band, that is following you from the bathroom." or, "You ain't supposed to say ain't." or, "You are eating too much of something." or, "What you are eating could seriously hurt you.", or, "Your thinking, your opinion, your doctrine, is not correct, here", etc. Sometimes people are so fragile, so easily threatened, that they would stop being friends over such a thing. But, I am determined to remain your friend, and to keep loving you, no matter what, even if you correct me. Even if you, for some reason, come to disagree with me. I love you. I deeeeeeply appreciate you. It would not be entirely honest of me to say that my love and appreciation for you is not based on the good that you do for me, the work that you do, for the benefit that I experience from you as a result of our friendship, because, there can be a limit on my knowing my motivation. But, I will say this: Let us always relate to each other, as God would have us to. That way, we will not give each other too much money, we will not be spending too much time with each other, we will not be paying each other too many compliments, NOR will be lacking in these things either. If we relate to each other on God's terms, our friendship will be just right. In fact, we will even be able to speak correction into each other's life, without the other becoming offended. Well, I must go for now. But, before I go, let me say that I appreciate you. Thank you for your friendship. In Jesus' Name. Amen. John Roy Bohlen 1-715-866-4060
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