Keep Yourself in His Love
Mon 26 Mar 2012 AM « Back to Top
One of the most painful experiences in life is to go through experiences where you're unloved or where people react against you, where they speak against you or where there's physical or emotional violence, and you actually experience over a period of time a deep sense of lack of value, that I don't belong or I'm not valuable to anyone. You come to the c onclusion in your heart that I'm unlovable.
Now let me just start with a story about a pe rson I met in Wellington some years ago. I was going down to speak at Promise Keepe rs, and I came out of the airport and waiting around, wonde ring who's going to pick me up, and this old drug rehabilitation van pulled up outside. So the transport was the drug rehabilitation van, and the re was a fairly big Maori fellow the re, with tattoos all over hi m, and he's sort of standing out the re, and he said oh, this way bro'. I said okay, this must be the one. So I got in the re with him, and anyway I got talking to him, found out his name was Peter and I said Peter, tell me a bit about yourself.
So he began to share about his background, and he'd had a very hard background; abusive father and family, and it was a very, very difficult painful background. It was quite distressing to hear about it, and he got involved in the gangs, he was then dealing drugs. He was the drug dealer, he was the one - and even while he's in the prison, he's got the deals going through his wife in the home. Anyway I said well what happene d to you?
He said well, someone must have been praying for us. He said I got in here, and he said, you know, he said