You don’t trust that I love you.
These were the words that I heard loud and clear as I sat there thinking about broken relationships from my past. I always have this longing to fix the past- to fix those relationships that ended poorly. I have an innate desire to be loved and to love and more often than I’d like to admit, I find myself searching for love in all the wrong places.
Loving people is hard. Letting people love you is harder.
My question is: Why? Why is it so hard to let people in? Why is it so hard to love others? Why is love a hard thing to comprehend?
It’s human nature. You want to be able to sustain yourself, to survive on your own. You have convinced yourself that love is weak and it is- human love. But I’m not offering you any sort of human love. Human love is tainted by sin, by hurt, by selfishness, by jealousy, by fear. My love is perfect. It is whole. It is unconditional. It’s not just some feel good stuff that you see in movies or read about in books. My love is deeper and stronger. My love is unconditional. My love speaks truth.
Complete and Satisfying
Sacrificial and Renewing
Unchanging and Unfailing
You can’t possibly comprehend it because it doesn’t exist in a sinful realm. Yes, people can love you. Of course, they can give you a taste of the love that I have for you. That’s one of the joys of being human- heaven on earth: letting people in to experience just a taste of the heavenly love that I have for you.
As the Lord spoke these words to me about his great love, one question remained: Why do you love me. I listened to a podcast about five months ago about God’s love for us. This one line has stuck with me ever since.
I love you because I love you because I love you because I love you because I love you.
It’s still hard to wrap my mind around this kind of perfect love. In my efforts to comprehend his love, he spoke these words to me:
I don’t love you because you benefit me in any way. There you go! The pressure is off. I don’t love you because you’re perfect. I don’t love you because you praise me. I don’t love you because of anything you do or anything you are. I love you because of who I am.
