The Love We All Need
Happy Monday, Friends!
I trust that you had a beautiful weekend. Tomorrow we celebrate Valentine’s Day and perhaps love is on your mind. It is on mine.
Today, I am excited to be over on Club31Women where I wrote a piece, Is Your Heart Crying Out for the Love of Jesus? It posted on the site today.
I recognize that Valentine’s Day can be hard for some of us. Betrayal, loneliness, and loss can taint our view of love. Is there a love that can heal us?
In the article I share the hope of a Cosmic Healing. A healing that can only come from divine Love:
“This healing? It’s a cosmic kind. It bathes our existence in the newness of Heaven. The salvation from sin.
Jesus healed every wound that sin created by taking it upon himself.
What kind of love is this? A love that takes every heartache, fear, and anxiety and drapes it upon Himself. No currency in the world can compete with the love of Christ. He won the battle for wholeness.
Those pains you and I encounter daily?
Betrayal, loss, bitterness, and death. Jesus swallowed them up at Golgotha.”
We cannot comprehend the breadth, length, height, or depth of Christ’s love. Ephesians 3:17-19 reminds,
“so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”
My husband, Tim, talks about this four-dimensional love in his book The Beauty Chasers:
“When God says, “I love you,” he is speaking as one from whom love itself comes. He is the Fountainhead of love, the Originator of love …It is a love that makes me lovely to him. It possesses the power to change me.”
Perhaps today you need to experience this love. This love that spans eternity, washes us clean in new birth, and provides hope when we feel all is lost. If so, I would encourage to read the entire article at Club 31. We need Jesus more than we realize at times.
“Nestled in the heart of Oxford, the church, St. Aldates, welcomed our family weekly while we lived in England. There was never an end to the hustle of people scurrying by its doors on Sunday mornings: parents picking up their littles after the service, tourists snapping pictures of Christ Church across the street, and students huddled in the local coffee shop.
One Sunday, as I traveled the cobblestone streets between the main church building and the parish where the children are dropped off, I chatted with friends as I pushed the stroller ready to pick up my girls.
As I bent over to lay something inside, I heard a little voice scream at the top of her lungs, “I NEED JESUS!” Again, crying even louder, “I NEED JESUS!”
I stood up, surprised as I heard Zion, my then two-year-old, screaming in the middle of the street, “I need Jesus!”
You can read the entire article here at Club31 Women: Is Your Heart Crying Out for the Love of Jesus?