Unending Love

Who wouldn’t want to hear that there is someone out there who loves us completely, warts and all? In fact, we know that someone exists! It’s God and He loves us right where we are. He doesn’t give us a list of tasks to complete before He says that He can love us. Nope and that is what Much-Afraid (who later became Grace and Glory) learned in Hinds’ Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard.

In The Faith-Fueled Journey, we know that the fifth and final lesson that Grace and Glory learned was, “She knew that when we accept, bear and obey the Lord, nothing can separate us from His love.” God’s always there for us regardless of whether we turn to Him or not. However, when we make the choice to have a Joyful Acceptance and we learn how to begin Bringing Good Out of the Bad and we obey God in our journey, then God knows that we love Him as much as He loves us!! We can then start Seeing the Potential and make A Healing Transformation. When you have a transformation, you are changed and don’t want to go back to the way that it used to be in your life. You have become more joyful! And no one can take that away from you!!

To me, the most enduring thing about our God is that He loves us where we are. Let me repeat that again…..He loves us right where we are. Now, why is that important? We don’t have to change to have the love of God. He gives it freely but He will show us even more favor when we understand this and begin to live our lives through the five lessons that I discussed in The Faith-Fueled Journey just as Grace and Glory did. It doesn’t mean that we will never go through hard times or have difficulties. It just means that we will know that we have a God who walks beside us during our life and carries us when we need Him the most. That, to me, is the most comforting thing of all.

So, what did I learn from this? By opening myself up to God, I am starting to “see” with more clarity. Do I know everything? Of course not! I truly believe that our growth continues to happen until our time on earth is done. I’ve always had a great relationship with God, but, now? It’s even better! Why? I know that God is calling me to do things that I wouldn’t have done on my own. He knows where my talents are and is using them to help reach others. When we open ourselves up to Him, then wonderful things, miraculous things, can happen!

What can you gain from this? There is always risk involved when you open yourself up to God. So, what’s the best thing that could happen? He will begin to help you put your talents to good use as well. The better thing that could happen? You might begin to like it.