Love vs. Hate: A Powerful Outcome

Can you imagine being taken from your family and country then becoming a servant to the commander of the army that took you? This happened in 2 Kings 5. A young girl was taken and was given to be a maid.  It ends up being a great story of healing but I want to focus on the impact of this nameless girl.

For most people if they were in this situation the last thing on their mind would to love the people who took you from everything you knew. But this girl sees that her master has leprosy and instead of hating him or talking behind his back, she tells him that there is hope for his leprosy. She tells him that there is a prophet in Samaria that could heal him.

This is crazy! She is literally helping and having compassion on the enemy! What a crazy radical love she displayed. Because she did love, her master was totally healed of leprosy, experienced the power of God so much that he would never serve another God again. What an impact her love and compassion had! He was the commander of an army and friends with the king! I can image her master told everyone what God did for him. Those who knew him before could not help but notice his healing. He was a walking, talking testimony! Generations were impacted…A because of a girl who didn’t let hate blind her. That is powerful!

Do we love those who have hurt us? Are we willing to look past those things and just love? In our

world today we could care less about helping our enemies. Why on earth would we help those people?

Well it could change everything, it could impact generations. When people experience God, change will happen. So we have to be willing to lay down our pride, bite the bullet and love. Our enemies might laugh in your face, totally ignore you or even kill you. With love, nothing is wasted.

We are to love because God first loved us. We love people because God loves them. How dare we not love those who are precious to God?

Whatsoever Think

Have you ever loved your enemy? What happened? How did you feel? Comment below!

P.S Happy International Woman's Day!

The Girl Named Sephora

One night after a personal bible study I lay in bed and thought about what I had just read. The study said to ask God what’s one of the names He calls you by. So I was like ok, let’s try this! Kind of half expecting to get an answer,(which is really stupid of me because I know that God speaks to me and that He is more than faithful) I was wonderfully surprised by His gentle voice. God said "One of my names for you is Sephora."! Cool name right? 

But I wanted to know why He calls me that, I so I reached over to my phone and pulled up Google (I believe God loves Google ha-ha). After typing in my new name the make-up company came up, totally forgetting about the brand name, I kept looking and then I saw it...One of the meanings of Sephora… is beautiful. I almost burst in to tears.

As girls and woman this is the one thing we want to hear. When we hear it though, it’s as if the word only touches us on the outside, it doesn’t touch the heart. We also hear that God has made us beautiful, but it’s just like the saying “Jesus loves me”, we have heard so many times that it can grow into something we just know (If we don’t let it change us).

God calls me beautiful. The awesome thing is that what he calls you too. You really are beautiful...Read it again let it get into your heart. Psalms say we are wonderfully made...that is amazing. We are beautiful! When we let this truth sink into our hearts and let God bring a deeper revelation of this, we will begin to change from the inside out. You have heard it said that beauty comes from within, well it's true. Know who you are, and then it will show on the outside. 

I am the girl named Sephora, and so are you!

Whatsoever Think...

Note: Now you try it! Ask God what He calls you(it will always be good!)! Find out what it means! Then please leave a comment about it! I would love to hear what He said about you. I did this with my youth group and it was really awesome to hear all the names that God calls us! Ready...Set...Go ask!

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