I want you to know me more than I want burnt offerings. 7 But like Adam, you broke my covenant and betrayed my trust.
if we think about the people in our lives that we felt should have loved us differently than they did... we felt betrayed by them.. we felt they never really loved us at all... we felt crushed by this lack of love from those that we believed were supposed to love us but did not love us the way we wanted loved...
I think about this and I realize that we all give and receive love differently... we also tend to think someone else is supposed to love us the way we want to be loved.. rather than the way they are able to give love...
I often think of my father.. who I believed never loved me... and in all honesty... I don't know if he did.. I do know that he did not want another child at the age that he was when I was born... which as a grown person is much easier to relate to than when I was a child... but regardless of that... even if he did love me.. it was not in a way that I was able to receive it... now I don't think that makes someone wrong for not giving something the way we think we need it.. maybe instead we could try to see the good within them despite the fact that we don't get from them what we think we need...
maybe they were never to make us fully feel loved.. maybe that is only God's place... and here we are.. rejecting Him.. because we want this (what we imagine to be) amazing love from a person.. and they let us down...
now look instead to God.. maybe He is wanting us to give Him love in a manner different than that which we are giving it... maybe we need to seek Him and ask Him how He wants us to love Him.. and in doing this.. maybe the need for love that we all have vacant will somehow be filled... and we will finally have the love we have wanted all along...
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