You Can't Give Someone Something You Don't Have

So last night my family and I watched the movie, Fireproof.

If you haven't seen it, it's about how God heals a marriage that is plummeting downward when the husband surrenders to Him. It's a great movie about how different and more fulfilling your life is when you let God into your life.

Anyway, my favorite scene in the movie is when Caleb and his dad are in front of the cross and Caleb's dad asks Caleb, "If I were to ask you what bothers you so much about Catherine (Caleb's wife), what would you say?" Caleb goes off on this big list of things, starting with "She's so stubborn" and ending with something like, 'No matter how much I show her I love her, she keeps rejecting me.'

Right after he says that, Caleb looks up and his father is standing right below the cross. Caleb was doing that same thing to God; rejecting Him for other things no matter how much love God showed him.

So Caleb surrenders everything to the Lord right then. It's such an amazing scene.

One thing that Caleb's father says is, 'You can't show her your love if you don't have any.'

This is so true. People that don't know God's love don't really know what love is and, therefore, can't show love to other people. So that's why some people fall in love for very wrong reasons, or some stop showing their love to their spouse after they get married, thinking that they've reached the goal by marrying them.

So today, I started reading through 2 Corinthians. I just studied the first half of the first chapter, digging into the words a lot. In verse 4, it says:

"He (God) comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us."

These are the same things.

We can't give others our love or comfort or help if we don't accept God's love or comfort or help that He is always offering to us. If we don't recieve any, we don't have anything to give.

Love ya'll!
~Kaitlyn