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The Unconditional Love of God

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This is a story of one of those times when God, quite literally, took my breath away.

Sunday Afternoon

I was a happily single mom at the time. The kids were out, and taking advantage of a quiet Sunday afternoon to myself, I was cutting out a pattern on the floor of my bedroom. As I catapulted around the floor, trying not to swallow pins and stab myself with the scissors, for some unknown reason, I began to feel rattled and distracted. I tried to remain focused on my sewing but the strange feeling persisted.

Not knowing why, I eventually stopped what I was doing, sat down on the corner of my bed and said:

“Ok Lord. If there is something you want to tell me, you have my attention.”

“I cannot give you somebody to love, if you cannot love yourself.”

That got my attention. Especially because I had absolutely no plans to ever get married again.

But it was impossible. I didn’t have any self-worth issues, I had dealt with all of that long ago. Maybe I had heard wrong. I mean, I was ok with me, wasn’t I?

As I sat there, words began to stream through my mind. Words about my own self-worth, value, God’s love and how not loving myself, stood in the way of me loving others. The words kept coming and they all had to do with the same message. When the words stopped, I shrugged it off and carried on with my pattern cutting. The unsettled feeling disappeared.

Sunday Evening

That night I went off to our church and joined in the chatter with friends, as usual, my afternoon’s encounter forgotten.

As the meeting started, the leader was talking to us when he was interrupted by the pastor. The pastor said he felt he needed to say something. He said “I believe there is a person or persons here today, who are struggling with self-love. You can’t love others until you love yourself.” He went on to repeat words almost identical to those I had heard, sitting in my bedroom, earlier in the afternoon. God got my attention for the second time that day.

He continued to say, “If you are that person, God wants to supernaturally reveal His love for you.” He said those people should go home, and pray to God to do exactly that.

Still doubting, I went home anyway and prayed to God. “Lord I don’t know if that message was for me, but if it was, I ask that you supernaturally reveal your love to me.”

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Monday Morning

I woke the next morning and as I busied myself preparing school lunches and hurrying the kids out the door, I expected God to whisper in my ear what a good mom I was. He didn’t.
I rushed around at work serving my customers well and expected to hear God say what a good hard working employee I was. He didn’t.
I waited to feel His gentle touch as He reminded me what a loyal and good friend I had always been. He didn’t.
I listened out for compliments, praises and accolades from Him. But there were none all day.

Tuesday and Wednesday

The next two days were the same. Not once did I hear anything positive or one word of encouragement. All I saw was how badly I had failed; my weaknesses; my incompetencies and how ugly and useless I was. If I didn’t have self-worth issues on Sunday, I sure had them by the Wednesday. By then I could barely keep it together. All I wanted was to go home, curl up into a little ball and die. If God couldn’t show me how worthy I was, how much less must the world see?
When we got home that afternoon, I kept up the brave face for my children, not wanting them to see me fall apart. The tears were dammed up behind the walls of my lids as the band around my chest tightened. Thankfully they went to bed easily that night and I was able to escape to my own room where I sank to the floor. All the pent-up hurt, disappointment and negative beliefs erupted in a tsunami of wracking sobs and emotions. Why Lord? Why am I so worthless? How come not even you can find anything beautiful in me? The pain was overwhelming and tears poured down my face.
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God’s Supernatural Revelation

A picture flashed into my mind of a blob of jelly. Not a pretty green or red jelly. It was a mound of dirty, brown jelly. “That’s how I feel Lord” I cried out in the depths of my pity party. “That’s how I feel. Ugly, dirty and worthless. A jelly blob.”
“Yes. That’s you” He said. “But I love you anyway.”

And there it was. Right there.  A supernatural revelation of His love.

My tears and sobs dried in an instant as the words hit home. God had just shown me a picture of His unconditional love for me as well as the whole of mankind.

You see, His love does not depend on our qualifications, our achievements, where we live or the car we drive. It is not how well we parent or how many friends we have. He doesn’t love us as the world loves us. He loves us so perfectly unconditionally, that nothing we do can make Him love us more or less.

Living in the fullness of God’s love

That night, changed my life. I realized for the first time ever, that I was loved and worthy in the eyes of God and suddenly people’s opinions were less important. My worth had always been measured in comparison to others and I had always found myself wanting. I never felt good enough. Until the night I realized that they too are just jelly blobs. If the creator of the universe loves me and thinks I am worthy, what do people’s opinions matter?

The picture of the jelly blob has never left me. Whenever I face moments of doubt, I think back to that picture and remember who I am.

The other thing I learned that night was that we are all the same. We are all equal in God’s eyes. If I feel intimidated by somebody, I remember that below the appearances, they are also just a jelly blob. For the first time, I understood the scripture, “love your neighbor as yourself”.

So when I tell somebody that they are worthy or valuable, it is not lip service. I know how much God loves them. To read more about Loving as God loves, follow the link here.

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Activity

  • Read 1 Corinthians 13 which tells us how to show love as God shows His love to us.
  • Do you know somebody who should hear this message? Tell them the Father loves them.

 

Unconditional love of GodPrayer Corner

If you need prayer, somebody to chat to or advice, you are welcome to:

  • Email me directly kerrys@thewateringwell.com
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