This song by JJ Heller is beautiful & brings me to tears every time i listen to it. It is something we all ask ourselves & seek after:WHO WILL LOVE ME FOR ME? REAL love. Unconditional LOVE. Many may never experience unconditional love from people, even their families or friends.Feeling like they have to achieve/prove/perform in order to be accepted & loved.When i hear/read the lyrics to this song, i picture in my head all of the street kids & orphans i have hugged, kissed & shed tears with on this journey around the world, who have been abandoned & abused. I also picture the faces of the prisoners in Juvenile Hall & prisons i have visited & shared the hope of Christ with, when they felt hopeless.Despite what they had done, God still loves them. I see myself. I was engaged several years ago to a man i met at church, who said he loved me, then ended up abusing me. Even though i tried to be the best fiance/girlfriend i could be, it still was not good enough.(i know now it was not my fault & God’s love has healed my heart from that hurtful relationship & i have forgiven him) It left me asking…Who will love me for me?I think about all the times in my life that i searched for REAL love in all the wrong people & places, only to be disappointed & come out emptier than before.Maybe you can relate to these wounds.That sting of feeling rejection & fearing rejection. Attempting to find fulfillment & satisfaction from relationships with men. I reflect back to how i used to think i had to earn God’s love & even the love of my parents, even though they all loved me unconditionally. Especially God. Yes, i have done things for God & served Him, but that is not why He loves me. He LOVES ME FOR ME 🙂
Maybe you have never heard that God loves you or are reading this & don’t believe He loves you. Well, i am writing to YOU to say He DOES LOVE YOU. He passionately loves you.For many of us, the fact that God loves us is only head knowledge. We have heard it so many times, read it many times in the Bible, & have told other people He loves them, but it has never truly become HEART knowledge. It is actually scary because our hearts forget our First Love & become calloused & numb. I pray that it will make that 18 inch journey from your head to your heart today. Lets face it…God loves us even despite knowing all of our deepest, darkest sinful thoughts & actions of our past, present AND future. How many of our friends would still choose to love us if they even knew HALF of these things?
“For God so loved the world (that’s everyone) that He gave His One and only Son; that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have Everlasting life.” John 3:16 (i added the “that’s everyone” in italics)
“We love because He first loved us.” 1 John 4:19
“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,
neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be
able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our
Lord.” Romans 8:38-39
neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be
able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our
Lord.” Romans 8:38-39
(i believe those verses in Romans cover EVERYTHING, what do you think?)
WHEN YOU ENCOUNTER THE LOVE OF GOD, YOUR LIFE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN…
Here is her song:
