Jesus has been totally rocking my whole world with one of the most basic Christian truths that He’s revealing and uncovering and redeeming and renewing for me here in Cambodia. Jesus loves me! He loves me! I think I’ve heard these words hundreds of thousands of times, but just take a minute to slow down and say it to yourself. He loves me. I am loved. The King of the Universe, the Creator of this world, the biggest and best and greatest one out there loves me.
This past almost 2 months, God has been revealing His love to me in new and wild ways. He’s been opening my eyes to the ways He loves me every single day. Each day is a gorgeous picture that He’s painted just for me to display the deep love He has for me. The faces and feelings and sights and sounds that surround me on the regular are His whispers of His wild love for me. Every day is a reminder of His constant pursuit of my heart.
I’ve asked Him to let me know when I’m experiencing His love in my ordinary life and IT’S BEEN CRAZY. His love is everywhere! Ask Him to let you see it.
These months His love has been in the smiles and hugs from my students. It’s been in the games of tag surrounded by the laughter of carefree hearts. The wind in my hair in the back of a pickup truck and on my bike. Love is in the sun on my skin and the games of soccer on the street. In the good conversations and jokes and clean laundry. The yellow butterflies floating through the air and the way the world smells after the rain. I see His love in the good food I’m eating and the way the mountains look across the rice fields outside my house. It’s in the slow moments with my team nearby. It’s in the books from my childhood in the library to read to my students. The sounds of good music. I feel His love in the moments of uncontrollable laughter and random compliments and even eye contact with people I love. His love calls to me as I walk down the busy streets and when I read thought-provoking things and see beautiful scenes. I can feel His love in the people surrounding me and see Him all the time in their faces and actions and words.
There’s not enough space or time to really list or describe the love that I’ve experienced from my Father these weeks. He loves me. He loves you. And He’s CONSTANTLY dying to let you in on this deep, wild and extravagant love. Each day is just a painting filled with the beautiful moments and pieces of His heart. I’m learning so much about how deep His love is, and what His love actually is. I’m learning where His love was in the past and that I can count on it in the future. I’m learning that living from a place of confidence and rest in His love really changes everything.
He loves you! He loves me! And He’s shouting it and whispering it and showing you all the time. Ask Him to open your eyes! There’s so much more all around all the time!
