Over the past couple of weeks, the Lord has been teaching me about love.
REAL love.
His love.
At first He was showing me what love really IS – what it looks like in the fullness of Christ. But over the past week or so, He's taken a very different approach by showing me what love is NOT. And in doing that, He's been revealing to me distortions of love that I believed in the past.
To be honest, it's been pretty painful (and slightly frustrating) to walk back through broken instances when people haven't loved me and/or others around me WELL, when lies about myself and others were created, and then those lies rooted into my heart. But the Father has been so FAITHFUL in revealing the distortions of love and my self-worth, digging the lies out from their roots, speaking HIS Truth into me, and planting that Truth in its rightful place.
It reminds me of weeding out a garden – when weeds take over, they distort the true beauty of it.
And even though it takes time to get rid of them all, even though it can be painful, and even though you have to get down on your knees at times, the final product is absolutely BREATHTAKING.
And once all the junk is cast out, life more abundant springs forth, and the glory of the Lord radiates in all its fullness!
"The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom…it shall blossom abundantly and rejoice with JOY and SINGING…They shall see the glory of the Lord, the majesty of our God."
–Isaiah 35:1-2
