Do you know that you are loved?
I mean really loved? Do you really know, and I mean know in a way that from the very core of your soul
you stand unwavering on this knowledge, that you, yes you specifically, you who
are taking the time to read this, that you are loved, and I mean loved not like
I love macaroni and cheese, not like I love dogs, and not like I love my
friends and family, but a love so deep, so revolutionary, so complete, and so
holy that it blows our love for things out of the water and leaves us
breathless?
I ask again, do you know that you are loved? Loved by someone far
better than anyone else on this earth and by someone whose heart burns, yearns,
and turns over and over again for you?
I ask because, simply put, I cannot go spiritually further
with you until your heart, mind, body, and soul understands this Truth!
It doesn’t matter how well I can write or how much God moves
me through writings and revelations, I am not able to stir up spiritual silt
inside of you until you first know exactly how much you are cherished, loved, and
adored by the Creator!
He loved you so much that I believe if you had been the only
one in the whole world living that He would gladly have died for you.
He laid down his life for a broken world and broken people,
and expected nothing more than for us to receive His love. What love can be
more perfect than this?
It was exactly His art of love, His Ars Amatoria to say it
in Latin, which moved me to write even though I have a full plate of essays and
work to shovel through.
I know no better love, nor any better thing that I could do
for you as a writer and as an individual than hope to help articulate how
beloved you are by Jesus Christ.
It is love that separates us as followers of Christ from
other religions
And it is love that separates my flesh from my spirit and
allows me to feel the winds of freedom.
Do you know that you are loved?
Merely,
Chris Gerac
“Greater love has no
one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13, NIV
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