Day 12: You Are Perfectly Loved
- Joni
- 4 hours ago
- 2 min read
What is LOVE?
Is it when your granddaughter puts sparkly orange eyeshadow on one eyelid
and
sparkly blue eyeshadow on your other eyelid?
Is it when she draws all over your face with green and red paint markers?
Is it when she then adds hair paint to your hair?
Is it when she asks you if you looked "different" (hmm...younger)
when you were her daddy's mom when he was small?
Or is when she points out all of the wrinkles on your face and
asks why you have saggy skin?
Hmm.
YES!
It is
PERFECT LOVE!
So when I asked my hubby on the ride home, with paint all over my face,
if I should wash it off, and he just snickers, is that LOVE?
YES!
Well I did wash my face,
yet I actually thought I would leave all her artistic designs on my face,
for those moments
where such precious moments
that are tatootted on my heart forever.
The wrinkles are still there and that is okay,
because
LOVE COVERS ALL!
So why do we pick ourselves apart,
and why do we pick apart others,
or why do we take offense
when other's pick oursleves apart,
when GOD doesn't?
For even that
we KNOW that
HIS PERFECT LOVE COVERS ALL,
yet our own condemning words
or the condemning words of others
become all that we hear.
Hmm.
GOD'S PERFECT LOVE,
that is a PERFECT FIT
for one and for all~
JESUS CHRIST.
For we know,
"Therefore there is now no condemnation [no guilty verdict, no punishment] for those who are in CHRIST JESUS [who believe in HIM as personal LORD and SAVIOR]"
(Romans 8:1).
Hmm.
HIS PERFECT LOVE
that created
"all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit them together in my mother’s womb..." *
Hmm.
PERFECTLY CREATED with A PERFECT LOVE,
because
GOD IS A PERFECT GOD.
Therefore,
when when you see the reflection of yourself in the mirror,
look with the eyes and the heart of a child,
so that your first words will be,
"THANK YOU for making me so wonderfully complex! It is amazing to think about.
YOUR workmanship is marvelous—and how well I know it"
*(Psalm 139:13-14).
Because,
"I may be far from perfect
But I’m loved by
'YOUR PERFECT LOVE'"
(listen to the song below)
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