Have you ever seen a malnourished child? I believe you have but you just didn’t know. Here’s the problem, when you hear the word “malnourished,” you think of the starving kids in Africa In the pictures or a child living in a dessert that has absolutely nothing to eat. But there’s a second type. The person could be your next door neighbor. He doesn’t look malnourished or he could even be fat and yet, amazingly, he is Malnourished because he’s eating the wrong type of food. Let me stoke your imagination. Let’s say you love Cotton candy and you decide to eat nothing else but cotton candy. Cotton candy for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. What would happen to you? Your hunger will disappear and you’ll probably have lots of Energy from the sugar but over time, you’d be killing yourself because you’ll be terribly malnourished. Spiritual malnourishment is very similar. If our bodies hunger for food, our hearts hunger for love. Food is the fuel of the body and love is the fuel of the soul. Without food, our bodies will die and without love, our hearts die. Do you know what is common among Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Heath Ledger, and Michael Jackson? Two things! First is that they are all dead. And second is that they all died of drug overdose. They were taking either illegal or prescription drugs for years. They had everything like money, pleasure, fame, cars and excitement. They had fans that worship them. I remember 4 years ago, someone bought the used chewing gum of Britney Spears on EBay for $514 (That’s Php 25,000 for someone’s spit). But that’s not the love that will fill a human heart. Again, that’s like eating cotton candy the whole day. Your heart won’t get nourished.
Every human being has a Heart Wound. We’re all wounded people. We may look strong on the outside but deep inside, we have a Heart Wound that must be healed. Note that some people have a deeper Heart Wound than others. Perhaps they had an alcoholic father or a very selfish mother. Perhaps they came from a broken family. Perhaps they were abused as kids. Don’t be shocked, but filling up Your Heart Wound is the most basic motivation of all that you do. It’s also the reason why people are addicted to negative things. When we fill up our Heart Wound with sex, with money, with drugs, with Romantic relationships, they don’t work because there’s only one thing that will heal your Heart Wound. And as corny as this may sound, that thing that we long for is LOVE. That’s why another term for Heart Wound Is “Love Tank”. If you want to function well in life, your Love Tank must be filled. A person who has Problems handling life is the person who has an empty Love Tank. It could be the jobless person who Doesn’t have self-worth, a people pleaser who has no backbone, a millionaire who doesn’t have friends, A guy controlled by his fears, a person who is having marital affairs, a drug addict, a girl who jumps From one jerk to another jerk or a greedy politician who has come to believe in his own lies. I’ve realized that, all these people have empty Love Tanks. They are desperately finding a way to fill up their wound and are doing it in the wrong way. There is only one thing that can heal your Heart Wound And that is the love that is found in relationships. Your relationship with God with yourself and your relationship with others.
Your relationships will determine your happiness and success in every area of your life. So, the MillionDollar question is how are your relationships today? How is your marriage? How are your relationships? With your parents? How are your relationships with your kids? How are your Relationships with your siblings? How are your relationships with your friends? How is your Relationship with God? How is your relationship with yourself? If you tell me that your relationships are happy and deep and blessed then you have everything. No Doubt about it you are one very successful person. Some of you may be saying, “I’ve got lots of Relationships! But why is my Heart Wound not being healed? Why is my Love Tank not being filled?” Here’s the big problem with relationships, they are organic and they are not inanimate objects. They’re living, breathing things.
Let me give you a good analogy. There are two types of toys, the battery-operated and wind-up.Some People make the mistake of thinking that relationships are like battery-operated and think them Could just slap a double a battery in their relationship and viola, off it goes, humming its tune forever.But that’s not how relationships work. They don’t go on autopilot. Relationships are like Wind-up toys And if you don’t wind it up, the ballerina stops dancing and playing music. When you’re Relationships Aren’t working, it’s because you’ve not been winding them up. What am I saying is that? Relationships Need renewal or they die and dead things can’t give you love and heal Heart Wounds. I believe that If you change your relationships, you change your life. Because if you squeeze out the essence of life, You realize that life is all about relationships. Your happiness, your success, your health, and that Your dreams depend on relationships. Give me a person with very happy relationships and I’ll show you a very happy person. Give me a person with miserable, dysfunctional relationships and I’ll show you a miserable person. Pick one relationship in your life that you want to renew and refresh or you may want to deepen and Strengthen. Perhaps it’s your relationship with your mother, or your siblings, or your husband, or your Child or a friend. Go and tell that person, “I want to strengthen my relationship with you” and When you do this, you might get shocked looks or questions or laughter or even ridicule from the other Person or you might get a hug or some tears. It doesn’t matter! Just go out there and tell someone You’re Prayer for a relationship reborn.
Let’s renew relationships and believe me it will heal your Heart and Soul and fill your Love Tank.
