The reality of being loved changes everything. To know that my wife loves me in spite of myself is amazing. And my parents’ faithful love over the many years I ran from Christ is beyond comprehension. Ah, but the love of Jesus, that is flippin’ unreal. The God who knows the deepest, darkest corners of vileness that dwell in my flesh loves me more deeply than any human could ever be capable of.
Oh that I could love Him in return!
Oh that I could love you with the same love that He loves me!
Lord help.
Yeah dude, I totally get what you said here in your post. I don’t deserve my girlfriends love (mostly because I think she is too good for me) I don’t deserve God’s love (because He is too good for me) and yet God has taught me how to accept love and in return has shown me what love looks like. Isn’t He awesome like that, even when we did stupid things like run from Him?
I hear you, Shawn.