My children, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Yes, everlasting.
I loved you from the beginning, and I will love you to the end. There’s no limit to my thoughts about you. There is no limit to my love.
You were the one that I went after, and I long to be gracious to you. I know you have been hurt, and I know that you’re afraid to let me close, causing people to be afraid of hope was such a crafty thing for the enemy to do, especially the fear of hoping to be loved.
Let me close. I do not want to hurt you, my love. I want to heal you.
I want to purify you, my bride, so you can feel beautiful on your wedding day. and I want to be in it all with you because you WANT me there. You, my child, have nothing to fear.
I will not hurt you.
I will not leave you.
I will not forsake you.
And I am not a man that I should lie.
I am the way, the truth, and the life. I am the way out of every mess, and the truth for every situation and every confusion part of your life and story. Remember, not only am I truth, but I know the truth, and I want to tell it to you. I am the life that you want.
Every single good, imperfect gift comes from me. Everything in your life that there is to delight in, that’s for me and I have more for you. Storehouses more, actually.
But I know that you have parts of yourself that are still in sticky places, and it may hurt getting out of them, but I am with you always, even to the end of the age.
Remember, my grace is sufficient.
scriptures indirectly referenced above:
1. Jeremiah 31:3 – “the Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.”
2. Hebrews 13:5 – “Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.'”
3. John 14:6 – “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'”
4. James 1:17 – “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.”
5. Matthew 28:20 – “teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
6. Isaiah 43:4 – “Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life.”
7. 2 Corinthians 12:9 – “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”
8. Psalm 139:17-18 – “How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.”
9. Isaiah 61:10 – “I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.”