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Love that lets go

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• In the Disney film

Beauty and the Beast,
one of the most gripping
scenes was when the
Beast was about to
confess his love to Belle.

Cogsworth

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• He knew much was at stake

for if Belle could love the Beast
for what he is, something
incredible was going to happen.

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• Before the Beast could

say anything, Belle held
his hands and asked
permission to gaze into
the magical mirror in
order to see her father.

• “I’ve got to go to him,”

she sobbed and pleaded
with the Beast.

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• “Go to him, then,” the Beast responded. Those four

words spoke volumes.

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didn't know what had happened, later

walked in.

• With an air of triumphant expectancy

in his voice he declared, “I must say
that things are going swimmingly.”

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• To his great shock, the

Beast confessed to his
enchanted little clock, “I let
her go.”

• "You did what?”

Cogsworth shook himself in
total disbelief as the reality
of those words sunk in.

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 • To let her go meant that
he forfeited his last and best
chance of ever being loved
by someone. After all, who
could ever love a hideous
beast.

• To let her go was to plunge his kingdom into another

season of a cursed existence.

• To let her go meant that all hope was lost of him ever
becoming a normal human again.
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 Why?

• “I had to,” the Beast

said. “I love her.”

• The Beast understood that a lover does not hold the object
of his love hostage to his possessive grasp.

• Love always let go instead of putting the lover in a cage.

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• A similar scene played

itself out in heaven

angel LUCIFER

• Just like Cogsworth, some

other angel might have asked
the same question -“You did
what?”.

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 • As in the story of the
Prodigal Son, God lets us
have our own way,
knowing fully well that
misery and suffering
could be the result of this
freedom.

• God does this because

there is no coercion in
love.
• Though God could force us to love Him, He let us go and
decide on our own.
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• “I love you too much,”
God says to us and
because of that He allows
us to go our own way if we
choose to.

• Love does not seek to

control for love must be of
a freewill nature.

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 • We have the option to
love God, to follow Him
and change our misery
and suffering into joy and
celebration.

• Like the father in the

Prodigal Son story, our
Heavenly Father longingly
awaits each day for our
return.

• He scans the horizon

daily for any indication of
our coming back to Him.

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 • The Bible declares that
whenever one person
comes back to our loving,
heavenly Father, the angels
rejoice.

• Luke 15:10 In the same

way, I tell you, there is
rejoicing in the presence of
the angels of God over one
sinner who repents.

• And as in the story of the

Beauty and the Beast, the
curse of sin will be broken
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