"You have searched me, Lord, and you know me."
Psalm 139:1
The
importance of meaning and love in life...
What is life worth if we don't live for something beyond ourselves.
Is it really necessary to do so?
What
is the relation between being heard and being loved. Or being intimately known
and being loved.
Many of us believe that God
wants to be known, searched and loved. He knows how much we need to know Him.
If
it is His vision and desire for us to know Him deeply, then no wonder it is our
strong desire to be known. The difference is that He is God and doesn't change
or feel depleted if we aren't showing interest or taking the time to
know Him more. He is beyond wholeness and completeness with or without us.
But
in comparison, we can be utterly crushed and carry a sense of worthlessness
when the ones we meet or keep company with seem disinterested. We associate
feeling unlovable or unloved with the way people respond to us as individuals,
not seeming to care what we have to say or for being indifferent to our
thoughts and feelings. We wonder, "do they even care?"
Another
way to feel valued is when the ones you love most want to advertise how amazing
they think you are and like to share with the world how much they love you and
can't stop "singing your praises".
Kind
of like with God… to know Him and make Him known…
I
wonder, is there a connection? After all, being created in His image, there's got
to be some similarities.
Different
but similar.
I sense
that something has been lost and it’s leaving a trail of lonely souls. People
have time to scroll through instagram for longer than they have time to give
getting to know someone in an honest open real life conversation. People will
follow or befriend you on social media and leave comments on photos more often
than they’ll speak to you in person. They give the impression that they’re part
of your life and care about you, but the reality of this actually outworking is
far from the façade. The people that don’t know you physically but know you
through instagram really do want to see the photos you put up or others put up
of you but don’t always want to acknowledge you outside the cyber space in the real
world. We all do this.
The truth about loneliness?
You need someone to help you
out.
But people don’t generally
know you sit alone at home a lot, because when you are in public you put a
happy face on.
Not necessarily being fake
because you genuinely are happy to be around people, maybe not always but
often, especially if you’ve made the effort to go out.
The place to tell someone
how you are truly feeling is one on one in private.
Unfortunately, you rarely
find yourself in a position like this.
Also, if you want to make
friends you don’t want to start off with your “sad story”.
But you really are sad.
You basically want to cry
anytime someone asks you how you’re doing.
Or you’re angry, all the
time.
I’ve been there before, have you?
I sincerely believe that
every single human being has the desire to be known. The only way to know
someone is to invest your time in conversation. In that time you give your
focused attention, showing sincere interest in who they really are. People are
beautiful, complicated, intricate, comprehensive and deep. There is history,
purpose, quirky character traits, little unique details and different personality-isms that
all contribute to a person’s individuality. All of us want to be discovered,
hopefully not by everyone at the same level of depth, but certainly we want more
than what is seen on the surface. The surface can be deceiving and easily
misunderstood.
You cannot really know
someone from a picture or a fancy quote. You may get an idea of who they are
alluding to be but the only way, the only way, to truly know someone and give
them value is to give them your time and your attention.
Do you find people
interesting?
Do you want to value people
like Jesus does?
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