What does unconditional love look like?
How can we decipher it when we are surrounded by so many substitutes?
How can we experience it when we so often crave or feel we deserve an inferior version?
Unconditional love: Open, freely given No demands No caveats No ‘if’ or ‘when’ No requirement to strive or achieve or do something to attain it.
Love.
So much of our experience is conditional. So much of our experience is warped or broken: If you look a certain way, then you can be loved more. When you achieve this, then you are more deserving of love
We are taught early that love is only for the: beautiful, successful, confident, fearless, strong, wealthy, articulate, smart, popular.
What do we choose to believe about love?
Will we choose to believe God’s offer of unconditional love?
A love that was freely given, a love that gave everything to be known.
What does unconditional love require of us?
Humility, as none of us are excluded. None can deserve it more.
Grace, as it was given freely, regardless of what I have done or failed to do.
To turn away from our self-condemnation, our shame, our self-hatred, our self-reliance, our sin which is too strong and destroying us, and turn to the one whose love can truly set us free. For his love is a holy, redemptive fire that must consume everything that apposes it.
Thankfulness to the one who offers it, as it has the power, if we let it, to change our lives, our destiny.
Our hearts, as his unconditional love will heal us, it will redeem us, it will full us to overflowing so we in turn can share it with a world that so desperately needs it.
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