LOVE FROM SOMEONE WHO IS NOT PLAYING WITH US

Sunday, November 19, 2006

“The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying, “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving—kindness.” Jeremiah 31:3

I like the words of Tim Hansel:

Some of us in our loneliness try to become more attractive so that we will be more lovable. We think that will somehow heal us, make us whole, make us real. The truth is that we need a love that lasts for a long, long time from someone who is not playing with us, but really loves us. He heals us bit by bit. When our striving fails, he is a God who comes to find us—even when we can’t find ourselves. All too often we think we have to change, be good, to grow in order to change and grow and be all the things that God wants us to be.