What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of the word love? Go with your first thought. Have you ever experienced true love?
I haven’t. I take that back. I thought I hadn’t. I believed I was in “love” once. To be frank, I was full of crap!
But I have experienced love for what it truly is. I felt the precense of true love on the floor of the prayer room several
months into my program at the Table Rock Freedom Center with my arms spread wide, a tissue in my hand, and tears streaming down my face. You know those moments when you have no doubt that God must have just audibly spoken to you? I had one of those moments. I remember him clearly saying to me, “Sundi Jo, when are you going to let me loveyou?’
I was supposed to let God love me? How could I do that? How could a perfect, unblemished God love a wretch like me?
I looked in that mirror that day realizing that I had never truly accepted the love of my Savior Jesus Christ. For the first time in my life I smiled as I looked at myself and finally accepted that not only did God love me, but I was beautiful. I could enjoy my beauty. I could believe in it. Not only did I learn to love myself, but I learned to love others.
we love because he first loved us – 1 john 4:19
You want a true love story?
but God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. – romans 5:8