Part of my prayer coming into this journey was that I would begin to see with our Father’s eyes. That I would begin to see souls instead of faces. That I would see the beauty in each and every person I reach. Father broke my world one day in the orphanage nursery at Kids International Ministry(KIM) in Manila. I was holding a baby, rocking him in my arms and humming worship songs to get him to sleep. As he was beginning to drift off, I felt Father’s love pour out on me. He gave me His eyes. He showed me His love for the little ones. I saw souls. I saw children who would grow into men and women and have an impact. Children who would grow to become men and women of God. Children who were covered by the love of Father, despite being left without parents in a very scary world. With tears streaming down my face, I began to thank Him for His all-covering love, love that can wash down over us and give us such peace and fulfillment. I thanked Him for bringing me to the Philippines, for blessing me with this opportunity to pour out that love on these kids who need it most. I thanked Him for each and every child, and how He made them exactly the way He wanted them to be. I thanked Him that He had a perfect plan, a plan for His glory, for each of their lives. I prayed for their souls. I prayed that Father would grow them in Him, that they would respond to the soul breaking love, the calling, the relationship, the adventure that He wants to take them on. I prayed for the lives they would live and the lives they would would touch. And I prayed they would sleep peacefully knowing that they are tenderly held by the loving hands of the Creator of the universe.
The experience broke me. I stood in the middle of the nursery, among ten toddlers, crying and worshipping Father as I felt His love on the place. It changed my perspective, and it filled me with such a joy. His love never ceases to amaze me. His love never ceases to change me. His love never ceases to break me down and continue making me into a vessel of His glory. Our Father has such a love. It’s immense. It’s breaking. It’s indescribable and uncontainable. It’s life changing and soul wrenching. And He has it for you. Everything He’s done, He has done to say “I love you”. He put the stars in the sky just to say “I love you”. He sent His Son to die on a cross just for the opportunity to say “I love you!”. Will you respond to that love? Will you say “I love You” back? He is wooing your heart. Romancing you in ways you’ve never been romanced before, ways you have never been pursued before, and He wants to be pursued back. Will you?
