Love for love’s sake.

I love revelation moments with the Lord. When He reminds you of a truth, so profoundly simple, but so incredibly earth-shaking, all at once. It’s those times when you’re just sitting there, not expecting anything, and He decides to speak. I treasure these moments. And I was privileged to have one today. 

I was driving home, spending some time praying, and listening to music. There was a worship song on, that had the line “I love you…” in it. And right then Jesus and I had a quick exchange:

“I love you.”

“You love me?”

“I love you.”

“But how?”

“I love you.”

“But how can you love me, I’m so…”

“I love you.”

Jesus could have spoken a million truths about who He’s created me to be and why He loves me. But ultimately the three words He spoke repeatedly over me were far more comforting, and reassuring.

He loves me simply because He does. It’s not because I don’t mess up, or even deserve it in the least.

It’s like this: I’m not a parent, but I’ve heard countless parents talk about the overwhelming amount of love you experience when you have a child. But think about it, why? It really doesn’t make sense. It’s a baby, it can’t even smile yet, all it can do is cry, eat, sleep, and poop. What’s there to love? It keeps them up all night, and gives them nothing in return. But somehow from the moment these parents look at their child and have a indescribable love. The love that baby, simply because it’s their child. 

The King of the universe loves me, just because I’m His child.

What an elementary fundamental of faith. An elementary fundamental that I needed to be reminded of. I’ve been reading through the bible with a new vengeance lately, wanting to dig deep and understand the Character of God on a different level than I have before. But through all this wrestling with scripture and trying to understand all these theological ideas that have completely tangled up my head, I forgot the solid truth that Jesus loves me. As I struggled with all of these ideas of theology, I forgot the simplest and most astounding of all. 

 

I love you.

 

Three short words, that I desperately needed to hear and understand in a greater way from my Savior today. 

 

Hello world!!!

Hi! This is my blog, I’m hoping to get to share alot of stories, prayer requests, and praise reports while I’m in Africa this summer. I leave for Burundi on July 14th and that’s when I’ll really start updating this thing. Until then I’ll keep you posted on any details about my trip. Most recent news: I got my visa!