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Brown Nosers


Looking for satisfaction? Can't find it in your job, things, the one you love, the bottom of a bottle, pills, the gym... God's ways flood the hollow of your heart... We are lacking... empty... on our own... Someone... only pleases you for so long... then the quiet hits... and you again find yourself fighting the screaming longing... the pounding ache.. That you fight in the dark of night... a large spotlight beams down on your beating heart... the missing piece... is never found where we relentlessly pursue...it’s in giving it over to the one who holds the key... God is that missing piece... and gently completes our scrambled puzzle...

Do we take delight in honoring each other? Or do we hog the spotlight? The Bible says "unt uh"... or sort of... what it really says is to love each other...genuinely... and not fake it... so....take delight in honoring each other..Romans 12 also say to work happily together... and "don’t try to act big" and "don’t try to get into the good graces of important people"... wow... you won't read that in a business manual... it says to "enjoy the company of ordinary folks"... Now this version of the Bible is the Life Application... but the last part of verse 16 says "and don’t think you know it all"...

While I don’t encourage you to post this verse on your co-workers computer, it is good for all of us to read this advice that is so different than what we are taught in school... in the life of "hard knocks"... anywhere...Why don’t we brown nose? Well we miss the blessing of those around us... those we don’t have to be fake around... The problem is... when your fake... those that are really looking at you... see through it... and you are not honoring others when you squash those around you to leap ahead... don’t sell your soul to a person... unless it is God... because in the end... though your bank account may be abundant... you still have to fight the demons in the dark... and your financially sound but spiritually empty...

See... Love is not selfish!!!! "We live in a world enamored with "self" - The Love Dare... Our culture focuses on appearance, feelings, personal desires and goals... as top priority...but this kind of thinking becomes "painfully apparent once inside a relationship"... the opposite of love is selfishness.. "Almost every sinful act ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive" (The Love Dare)... every crime... we think of a captain in Dixie County that lost his life today... by a murderous, evil man from Brooksville... and it is not entwined at all with love... but the extreme opposite... selfishness...

Why do we set low standards for ourselves, but high standards for our mate? Selfishness... Love does NOT seek its own (I Corinthians 13:5)... the problem is that even generous acts are made selfishly... lol... to be seen... that are fake...the bottom line? You either make decisions out of love for your mate... or love for yourself... no other way... do you have a "loving reputation" to others... to the one who knows you better than anyone else.. Or are you selfish...Does your partner, your spouse, have the challenge of loving a selfish person? Hmmm...

The dare today? Along with saying nothing negative again... buy the one you love something that says "I was thinking about you today"... with no selfish motive...we must stop crashing parties with our bleach blonde fake hair... and beautiful red "rip-off" dress, and our knock-off purses... and hose off the makeup.. And take off the girdles... and throw away the "toupees"... and be real... genuine... loving... selfless people...that are not afraid to be seen in the raw...

We cannot go back and Photoshop a relationship... what is said is said... what is done... is done... and we must stop making excuses for failure and flaws... that cover our bodies... and pursue revealing, honest relationships that put ourselves below... and those we love... above... start working as hard on your relationship at home... as you do "kissing up"... at the office...and that emptiness... will quickly disappear into the blessing of a true love that you've never experienced... ur the one causing you to miss the blessing... well, I definitely need to work on this one 2......

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