Difficulties Receiving Love

God wants to comfort you, and he also wants you to be a comforter.
Unfortunately, we often fail.

There are people who comfort others for years, but they never learn to receive comfort.
There are many pastors who suffer burnout or lose their own faith.

There are some therapists who save people from despair, but they commit suicide.

My father was a very good psychiatrist. I met Christians who were very grateful for his help, but at home my father was moody and often tense. He could help Christians even though he was not a Christian himself, and he had his own problems. Thank God, my father made peace with God not long before he died.

There are Christians who want nothing to do with psychiatry or psychology, but as a young man I was bullied in a narrow-minded church, and I am very grateful for the psychiatric care I needed afterwards. I know I am not an isolated case.

Unfortunately, there are also many Christians who help others but neglect their own emotional needs.

There is a prophetic preacher in Germany who, like many other Christians, is praying for a great revival. Many Christians are encouraged because we have been waiting so long for this great revival.

This preacher asked God why this revival has not come yet. God's answer was amazing.

The long-awaited revival has not yet come because so many Christians have never learned to love themselves.

We pray for God's abundant comfort, through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, but we have never learned to receive God's comfort.

There are so many Christians who are serious about the duty to love God and to love their fellow human beings. They worship God and serve their fellow human beings, but they remain dry inside.
 
What is your starting point, your duty to love God and serve others, or to receive God's grace and love for yourself?

This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. 1 John 4:10 NLT

So often Christians are converted, and they understand that their salvation is the free gift of God. We cannot earn our salvation, but only receive God's grace.

The basis of our relationship with God is to receive God's love, not only in our conversion, but for as long as we are on this earth and then for all eternity.

All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort.

He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us. 2 Corinthians 1:3–4 NLT