Unconditional love.
We all crave it. We long to give that love to someone, and we desire to have it given to us. We hope to share our entire life with another human being. To love through the good and the bad. To build a home and to raise children. To live this life with our soul mate, our lover, and our best friend.
I haven’t done the most spectacular job of making a life work with someone. I have burned through marriage (as I told you before) and have had rocky relationships. For one reason or another, I could find something wrong with every relationship that I have had, and most of the reasons were “deal-breakers” for me, or the other party saw flaws in me as “deal-breakers” for them. It didn’t matter, it just didn’t work out, and I constantly craved that unconditional love.
I used to think, I have all of this love in my heart, what the heck am I supposed to do with it? I wanted to give it to someone. Anyone. I just wanted to share it, so others could feel it too. I didn’t even think about giving it to the One who deserves it the most. I was at a point in my life where I was the furthest away I had ever been from Him, and it didn’t even cross my mind to give my love to God.
Now He gets it all.
I have reached a point in my life where I have finally learned that unless I give all of my heart to the Lord, I can never truly experience unconditional love. It goes back to that whole “putting Christ at the center of my life” thing. I am still learning how to live my life for Christ and how to love Him unconditionally, but I have opened my heart and I am learning to trust the Lord. I know He knows what I need and what is best for me. However, I still have my “I want” and my “I have my heart set on” moments. And yes, I am learning to curb those too.
As I grow in my faith and in my love for Christ, I know he will guide my heart to a life with whoever and whatever is right for me. It makes me nervous to think that I don’t know what His ultimate plan is for my life, but there is a peace and comfort in knowing that no matter what it is, it will be wonderful. It will be a life full of unconditional love because Christ will be in the center of it. It will be a life with a soul mate, lover and best friend. It will be a life with a home that is built on a foundation of faith and love. It will be a life that will honor our Lord and all that He is.
I will live this life for Him. Unconditionally.
Feed Yourself, Girl! with the unconditional love of our God. He is truly awesome.
1 John 4:16 (NIV)
“God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.”
feed yourself, girl 