Never underestimate the power of one. I’ve read that so many times, I’ve shared it on my timeline, and I have lived that mantra. One can be an empowering position. One can also be so lonely so disheartening that you long to disappear.
What if you’re the one on the top? This is a position I’ve not gotten to experience often but when it happens I bask in the glow. That one is a fulfilling spot. Feeling like everything is going your way, feeling like the winner. How can we use this position to help? How can we reach back and pull someone else up with us or even help them past us?
Imagine that one is being the one at the bottom. Looking up to everyone else, being the one who needs the hand up. This place can be trying, hurting, in some cases devastating. When you’re at rock bottom and there is nowhere to look but up because there is no where else to go. I have been in that place. I have been at the bottom, I have been in that pain.
As Christians we are called to love your neighbor as you do yourself. How can we love someone and leave them in that kind of pain? How was I left so many times to fend for myself in a world that wanted to tear me down, that wanted to destroy me. How was I fed to the wolves by people who claimed to love God? How could Christians slam the door in my face when I was begging for help, when I needed guidance, when I needed someone to LOVE like Jesus did?
Now understand me, I am not condemning anyone, I’m not angry, I’m not bitter, I’m trying to help. As Christians we often overlook the ones in front of us reaching for the lost. We bypass the needs of the ones we are in community with trying to grow the kingdom for God. We want to rejoice with the angels when one sinner turns his heart to God, all the while allowing one believer to suffer in disbelief.
Moving forward God I pray that I understand the power of one, I pray that the one sitting beside me is as important as the one you’ve sent me to reach, I am believing that every one is worthy of my love, and that one day soon every one I know will know my savior.
Don’t forget, don’t overlook, don’t stop loving.
I love you.
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