Reckless Love

It’s been exactly 3 weeks since I got back from training camp. Quite honestly, I’ve really been struggling with what to write; not because I can’t think of anything, but because there has been so much to write about. I couldn’t figure out how to squeeze the growth and experiences of the past four weeks into a small blog. I kept putting it off until, finally, it was like God literally threw this right in my face and said, “blog about this”. 

Backtrack to training camp- over the course of those 10 days in Georgia. God was doing crazy things, and I’m positive he wants me to share this story with you. I didn’t know this at the time, but I had been struggling with accepting God’s love, plain and simple… except not really. See the thing is, His love is extreme. Y’all, His love is so great my brain can’t compile a series of adjectives to even begin to describe how great it is. This is something that I had to face during training camp. It was like He was screaming into my heart, pounding on that wall, until I faced this reality: I am loved. And it’s not the love that this world believes in, not the love I had previously grown to believe my father in heaven possessed, but a different love… a true love, a pure love, a reckless love. A girl I “happened” to meet during training camp had given me a note. She told me, “don’t forget this. Dont forget to contact me!” I had thought, “Of course I can’t forget this wonderful girl and crazy cool note”. But sure enough, I put it away and it remained in my Bible for weeks. 

After training camp, I went to Colorado for a church trip. It was here that after these walls had been broken down, that THAT truth about His love stuck with me. It was here that I was introduced to a song that explained what I was feeling. This song wasn’t just a good worship song that I enjoyed. This song is special because it put what I had finally accepted into words, into detail of what was taking place in my heart. It confirmed my understanding and furthered a resonance within me. A week later, I happened to open my Bible to the note from Cheree. And I kid you not, the first thing it said was, “when you get home, listen to the song ‘Reckless Love'”. What better example of His perfect timing. She continued to refer to the song, and explain what that meant for her, for me, for everyone. Y’all, this love, it’s reckless! It’s coming after me hard and it’s coming after you. This love won’t stop until it has you in its grip. The craziest part is that we don’t deserve it. We couldn’t earn it. But we need it. And He gives it to us because He loves us, not because He wants something in turn, not because we did something to make Him want to give it to us, but because of His grace which is given to us by way of His “reckless love”. You’re worth it, you’re worth the fight, you’re worth leaving the 99 if that means you’ll join Him forever.

I’m in awe!!!