~(The Bible says) Love does NO harm!~

I wrote this, below, in response to a comment made at RFT, & feel led to share it with you...

Quote: (me writing) Also, when you wrote this, it really resonated with me, this is exactly what God's teaching me right now... "Because if I love myself I would never do any harm to me..."

He's been showing me that because He loves me, & my daughter loves me, & others love me, it hurts Him, & them when I do harm to myself by poor eating & not being active enough to stay healthy...
...& that when I allow Him to heal me through what HE gave us for food, rather than the world's poor imitation, then I'm showing Him how thankful I am for the life He's given me!
...& THEN I'm showing my daughter how much I love our life together!
...& that's teaching her to not develop self-destructive ways, & that looking after our bodies, the temple of the Holy Spirit, is an act of worship & thanksgiving! {End Quote}

As I pondered these things tonight, remembering all the self-destructive behaviour I've displayed over the years, at first, I was totally ashamed....it made me want to hide, until I'm healthy again...but I know that my God is merciful, & that ALL my sins are washed away, by my faith in what He did on the cross to remove them, & their weight (no pun intended!) is something I no longer need to carry...
...& He began to show me how He sees me...with compassion, understanding, seeing everything I've experienced in life, even the things no-one else knows...
He showed me, again, how much He wanted to be there for me more than I allowed Him to be when my heart was broken repeatedly, when I was used & abused, & how He carried me through when I had no strength to go on...& how He saved my life more times than I know...
He's poured out His grace over the times I settled for so little in all my relationships, with so little self-respect I expected none from anyone else...
I know He saw me stuff the feelings down that I just couldn't trust anyone with...even myself...He saw me turn to food when He was calling me to turn to Him...
...& as He's shown these things to me, in His lovingkindness, He's given me true & total repentance, & forgave me for my idolatry & foolish rebellion to what I knew a long time ago, but was too undisciplined & carnal to obey....
...& now, here I am, on the other side of self-destruction, knowing how much I need Him, knowing just how much His loving me makes all the difference...
...knowing that, "Without Him," as the Bible says, "I can do NOTHING, but WITH Him, I can do ALL things through Christ who gives me strength!"
{One of the best gifts God's ever given me!!!}