Thursday, March 31, 2016

Day 32 How to Know if People Care

Currently:
In front of the monitor.

Needing:
Exercise.

Doing:
Googling on 'how to know if people cares' and 'bible verse on knowing if people care'

While there are many entries saying of how to know if people cares (thought catalogs, yahoo answers wiki how-- which I once read through :p),  the second search went to entries on verses on caring for others.

The world needs care, attention, and appreciation, while the bible tells us more to give those. It is human need to be heard, feel cared about, and loved. Maslow's hierarchy of needs tells the need for love and belonging after fulfillment of psychological and safety needs. We become healthy when we are nourished and it may come from our families, our friends, the church.

On the other hand, the bible tells our need to express our care to others, as well as looking for our own.  

While we can look after our interest, Philippians 2:4 ..do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others, the great paradox of receiving is to give. (Luke 6:38 Give, and you will receive/ Acts 20:35). But we do not give to receive. Only when we find the joy in giving out of loving, then we won't even purpose it for receiving. That's the magic.

We are humans and we definitely need love and care, I feel for those who are in hunger for it and I hope that I could share them the love of God that abounds, and for them to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ (Ephesians 3:18). But it must be living me, as when I feel the need to be loved by others, I have to look unto the author of love which is God. If I find the need is fulfilled only with the love that comes from human, or even the love that comes from self-inspiration, I will despair at its limitations. Unless I find all the love comes from the real source, then only I will be filled and it shall overflow to others.

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