Sunday, May 3, 2009

LOVING RESPECT


Dear One,
Respect is the key to any successful relationship. Respect involves recognizing the value and importance of another person. Respect comes from having good character, which includes valuing others enough to be kind, generous, loving, prudent, gracious, forgiving and merciful.
All verbal, emotional or physical abuse is the result of lack of respect for another person's value so the abuser devalues him by making sure that the victim is beaten down in some way. A person who disrespects another person is more convinced of his own value than the person he disrespects. However, his respect for his own self is only gained by completely taking away the abused person's self respect and heaping it on himself.
To respect a person is to give honor to his ego, to value his existence and to praise his character.
Robbing a person of his self respect is to curse his future because it destroys his ego and causes him to fail in all of his endeavors. It is demonic because it curses and destroys the value of another person.
When you respect another person you consider him worthy of high regard and you act toward him accordingly. Respect is the basis of all true, unconditional love.
Disrespect comes from hell and it is at the basis of all abusive relationships. Those who are disrespectful toward another person think more highly of their own emotional health than they think of the other person's emotional health. Abusers love to have dominion over other people. They only have love for themselves.
My children should respect and value all of My children, regardless of their actions, philosophies, doctrines and beliefs. When you do, then there will be peace in your world.
Love, God
Matthew 5:43 & 44; Mark 12:31 &32; Romans 13:7-10

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