The God Who Loves You is Your Source

Anyone who is thirsty may come to me!
Anyone who believes in me may come and drink!
For the Scriptures declare, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from his heart.’”
John 7:37-38 NLT

My husband is not my source of unconditional love

and

I am not his source of unconditional love!

It’s nice when we hit it right and make each other feel loved, but even that is short-lived if we are looking to each other to fill our tank of need for love.

ONLY GOD is ENOUGH to fill my bottomless pit of need.

and

ONLY GOD is ENOUGH to fill his bottomless pit of need.

Really, NO ONE on this earth is enough to fill my need for love — not my husband or kids or grandkids or in-laws or out-laws or friends or anyone.

and

I AM NOT enough to fill anyone else’s need for love — not my husband or kids or grandkids or in-laws or out-laws or friends or anyone.

What happens if I expect another to fill my bottomless pit of need?

I can get needy and grasping and disappointed and bitter … and it can all go dark in my soul.

And what if I am trying to be someone else’s source of bottomless love?

I give out of obligation, not out of wanting to. I give to get approval or more love. I try to keep the person OK so they don’t get upset or disappointed. I rescue. And it all gets HEAVY.

And over the course of all my years on this earth, I’ve been guilty of it all and more.

But I’ve come to know that there is a healthy detachment from trying to be “Messiah” to loved ones and others. And that is because there’s a passionate attachment to living from the indwelling Christ who is my Source.

So then His promise is that out of my innermost being will flow rivers of Living Water…the Spirit.

And the good news is I can be God’s instrument, the conduit of His Love to my loved ones and others.

So then HE is the Source. Others are not and I am not.

HE is my SOURCE ALWAYS and FOREVER.

And as I keep “drinking of Him” in my everyday life, His Spirit can flow from me into situations around me.

What about you, dear friends.

Are you looking to another to fill your bottomless pit of need for love?
Let them off the hook!
ONLY GOD!

Are YOU trying to fill someone else’s need for love? Are they expecting you to be God to them?
Let yourself off the hook!
ONLY GOD!

Drink of Jesus and ask the HOLY SPIRIT to fill them and you. He will do it!

Amen.

This is an updated edition of a post originally published on A Branch in the Vine

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About the Author

Jan Loyd is a child of God, a disciple of Christ, a Jersey girl, a former nun, a teacher, and now a wife of 48 years, mother of two, grandmother of 5 boys and finally a baby girl...these are just some of the hats she wears or has worn. Her hat as teacher has seemed to be one she’s worn her entire adult life, ranging from teaching elementary school, homeschool, adult ESOL and GED language and writing. But along with all of these opportunities has been her favorite above all the rest: teaching women the Word of God in various ways, Precept Upon Precept and Bible Studies she’s developed by the grace and tutelage of God along the way. The heart of the message that she delights to share is that we are in union with the Living God through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. Currently you may find her on her devotional blog “A Branch in the Vine” where she shares several times a week and in her Bible Study/ devotional book The With-ness of our God: Relationship in Every Dimension.

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