LIVING AS CHRISTIANS: Week of January 29 to February 4, 2024, Help others feel the love of Jehovah, Video: Lei Lei and Mimi McConnell: Jehovah's family taught us what love is, Analysis and Answers.

LIVING AS CHRISTIANS: January 29-February 4-2024, Video: Lei Lei and Mimi McConnell: Jehovah's family taught us what love is, Analysis and Answers.

Help others feel Jehovah's love (15 mins.) Audience discussion.

Play the VIDEO Jehovah's family taught us what love is. Then ask:

What does Lei and Mimi's experience teach you about the importance of showing love?

Lei and Mimi's experience highlights that despite their difficult past and the lack of love in their biological family, the unconditional love and dedication of their adoptive parents provided them with much-needed emotional security. This love that his parents felt for Jehovah and how they spoke of him as their best friend, allowed them to overcome their emotional difficulties, cultivate trust in Jehovah and others, and thus be able to find purpose in their lives by establishing a friendship with Jehovah and take the step of being baptized. 

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS

Also receiving the love of the brothers undoubtedly also influenced their lives and contributed to them coming to love Jehovah and demonstrating not only love to him but also to others.

This experience teaches us that the true Christian must feel sincere love, show deep affection, loyal interest, and be a loyal friend to other people. 

Well, when they went to the Kingdom Hall for the first time, they saw that everyone greeted them with affection and love and seeing that there, they showed sincere love, it encouraged them a lot.

This experience also teaches us that if we show sincere love, we can heal the deepest wounds of others, wounds that perhaps we do not know, since in the case of these young women, due to everything they had experienced since they were children, it was difficult for them to trust and open up. with the others, but his adoptive parents achieved this with a lot of love and patience.

And we should not only show love to those we have known for a long time, or to our family, but also to people who come to the Kingdom Hall for the first time, we have to treat them with affection and receive them kindly, because this can mean a lot to them.

Yes, it is very important, because they came to love other people and Jehovah. Even though they never showed them affection, and all because the family who adopted them really loved them. 

And we can also see the lack of love that they had received, because they mention that they did not care about anything around them, they were lost, confused, they had suffered so much that they did anything to protect themselves. Then suddenly all that changes, they mention that this quality has made their life gain purpose and now they are trustworthy people who can love others. 

What we learn is that in the world the love of Jehovah obviously does not exist outside the Congregation. It only exists here, and that is why it is so important that we show it to both those who come from outside, as well as to people who are studying, for example. So that they know that love that does not exist outside and also see our brothers, because again, if we do not show it here we will not receive it anywhere else.

I really liked that expression to show love. As the importance of feeling love says. We all feel love for Jehovah and for our brothers, but we have to show it even though no one has taught us to show it, that is, we may have been raised without this love like these young girls, but they learned to show love, their mother hugged them and that is why they learned. Then we also have to show love to others in different ways so that they are drawn to Jehovah.

Furthermore, we see that showing love to others is like a chain, because if we show sincere love, they will notice our actions and will also want to put it into practice with other people.

How can we help our brothers to believe that Jehovah loves them?

Well we all know that saying that says that a picture is worth a thousand words, well when the brothers see that we show love to each other, they see that we show love within the circle of our family, we are helping them to feel the love of Jehovah. If we do this, the congregations and families will be stronger and we will all be able to face the final stretch of this system of things with many more guarantees, than of course the rest of the people who do not know what the love of Jehovah is. 

Seeing them as very valuable sheep of Jehovah (Ps 100:3).

In Psalms 110:3, it talks about how we belong to Jehovah, that we are his people and the sheep of his pasture. So we are all very valuable sheep for Jehovah. 

Speaking to them in a way that encourages and edifies them (Eph 4:29).

In Ephesians 4:29, it says that we are to speak to them in a way that will encourage and edify them.

Treating them with empathy (Mt 7:11, 12).

We must also treat them with empathy as Matthew 7:12 says, that we have to do for others what we would like them to do to us.

ANALYSIS OF OTHER ADDITIONAL POINTS OF THE VIDEO.

This is my sister Lei Lei, this is my sister Mimi. Lei Lei is very affectionate, I have no doubt. Something that I value a lot about Mimí is that she is always willing to help others, we love our family.

What I like most about mom is that she has a big heart and my dad, dad loves his family very much, our little sister Sofi cares about everyone, she wants us to be well, we would never change our family for anything, she will always be our family.

But before it wasn't like that, we haven't always been sisters, when I was little I already lived with a foster family and then Mimi arrived, that's how we became sisters, but they didn't treat us like part of the family, we didn't know What was it like for someone to love you, we didn't have a room for ourselves.

Lei and I slept together on a sofa, our host family left us alone at home and we had to take care of ourselves, that's why we were very close because we talked to each other, and we helped each other when we went to school, we didn't have school supplies, So I stole some things, we didn't have uniforms either, we had to wear our own clothes that were dirty.

Living through all that made me not care about anything that was happening around me. I didn't like people in authority and I didn't trust them, I felt lost and confused and I did anything to protect myself, we have experienced things that no child should ever experience.

Then we found out that there was a family that wanted to adopt us, I was 12 years old and I was nine, something that was very difficult for me was talking to my parents, since I didn't speak English, they had a hard time knowing how I felt, because He was not able to express whether he was sad or afraid. 

It was difficult for my daughter to trust, but they showed us love, hugged us and made us feel like it was our home. As I got to know them better, as I saw that they truly loved me and treated me like their daughter, I loved them more and trusted them more. Seeing mom and dad praying before eating for the first time was something new for me because I didn't know there was a God.

I had had some contact with religion in the past but I didn't like it so I didn't feel comfortable when I saw them praying. They had to think about how to tell us about their best friend, Jehovah. They took us to this place called the Kingdom Hall. The first thing we felt there was affection and love. There were so many brothers coming up to us, greeting us and hugging us, they were super affectionate with us, dad gave us some sheets of paper and told us to draw what we understood and those were the notes that we only took little drawings.

Our parents prayed with us and taught us to pray for specific things and to notice how we responded to Jehovah. Every day we had breakfast together and analyzed the text of the day, we also acted out Bible stories, and we prepared for the meetings. It was great when they released the Watchtower in simple language, I was able to understand better what I was studying and I learned more about Jehovah, that helped me get closer to God. He already comments more in the Meetings. 

Something that marked me was the international assembly of 2014. There I saw the love and unity that exists between the brothers and that touched my heart. It also encouraged me to continue progressing and make the decision to be baptized. What really helped me get closer to Jehovah and see something real was going out to preach more, that's why I made the decision to get baptized and after finishing my studies I became a pioneer, it's a way to show Jehovah that I love him. . Before I only cared about myself but I learned to care about others and think about them first.

We young people must value the time we spend with our parents, they are the best friends we can have. Since I am shy, at first it was difficult for me to go out and preach, but I decided to trust in Jehovah and began pioneering. Recently I also began to work voluntarily one day a week. The most important quality that Jehovah has taught me is love. I feel the love of my family, Jehovah and my friends.

I have learned that there is nothing wrong with loving others, and that is what we should do, we must love others and care about them, now I see that my life has purpose and I feel good when I reflect on everything that Jehovah has made by Lei and me, I know that I should not be afraid Jehovah is a safe refuge for me, because even if our life changes he never changes.