GEVURAH OF CHESED
DICIPLINE OF LOVE
All healthy love must be balanced, tempered and directed properly. This would include a constant degree of discipline. In Omer Count – Day Two we will examine this discipline aspect of love. In one of our previous articles, Moses gives his last words to the people. These words act as a reminder of how to live under healthy, balanced, tempered and properly directed and disciplined love in the new land of the promises, https://theinseasonlifestyle.com/moses-warns-of-obedience-as-the-people-wait-at-pisgah/.
As a result, real love considers a certain amount of distance and respect for the other party. It allows time to enter the relationship. True love allows space. It doesn’t over-spoil or suffocate the object of the love. In Omer Count- Day Two we find discretion is necessary to avoid wasting love on those who do not deserve it.
Additionally, it is important to ask if love is disciplined enough.
LOVE DOES NOT TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OTHERS
Are others using or taking advantage of your giving nature?https://proverbs31.org/read/devotions/full-post/22/04/14/love-keeps-no-record-of-wrong.
Being used is not the same as being loved.
REAL LOVE CANNOT BE FORCED
Are you hurting others by forcing your value systems upon them?
Forced values will not bring true commitments.
We must respect those we love by giving them space and time to reach their own conclusions.
True love makes up its own mind.
Finally, love is never forced or coerced.
QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE DISCIPLINE OF LOVE:
1. Are my reasons for love selfish?
2. Is my love sensitive to the feelings of others?
3. Is my love an extension of myself and my needs? Basically, true love is more about the other person than about yourself.
4. Is there as much emphasis on the one I love and their ability to contain my love as there is on me and my giving?
WORD PICTURE
As a result, rain is good; it nourishes and makes things grow. Basically, rain is refreshing. However, floods ruin crops and destroy a harvest. Finally, floods are harmful to the growth of a crop.