The Truth of His Love

The phrase, “the truth of His love,” came to me years ago. It is a truth that has stuck with me. As simple as the phrase may seem, the reality of it has been life-altering.

Over the years. I have come to the end of myself over and over. I have seen the depth of my own brokenness. I have been made aware of just how much I have hurt people in my life. I have been face to face with just how imperfect I am. And all of this has brought me to a place where I realize there is nothing I have to offer. There is really no way for me to earn love. I simply don’t deserve it.

Yet…in the reality of who I am and in all my failings, God comes with His love. No matter how lost I get, how angry I become, or how much I try to live life for myself, He always returns to me in love.

If you have been following this journey with me, you know that this has been an incredibly difficult and challenging season. But we all have those, right? And there are always a couple of options in these seasons: muster up enough strength to continue in the same manner hoping something will change soon, give up and walk away from this whole God thing, or give God a chance to be Himself for you.

Don’t get me wrong, the last option is by far the hardest. If God was supposed to make things work out for us, if God was supposed to answer our prayers, if God was supposed to give guidance when life didn’t make any sense then why go back to the problem. There are many more ways to walk away than there are of staying and fighting. And continuing in the same manner will work for a while, but eventually something gives.

The last option takes incredible sacrifice. But here is the truth of His love: God will never give up pursing you with His love.

In this season, I have been reminded by many friends just how God has used me in the past. They reminded me of stories of me hearing from God and then me saying to them the very thing that they had been praying. There have been so many moments of His goodness. As I reflect on this long walk with Him, there have been so many moments of God meeting me with His love, His truth, and His faithfulness. There are countless times that I have experienced love that is beyond anything I can describe using words. There have been so many times that Jesus has been so real that it was like I was face to face with Him. There are so many times that God has shown up in ways that are unexplainable outside of God. I am sure you have had these moments in your life where God came to you, made Himself known, and you experienced the truth of His love.

These reminders bring me back to this phrase. When it came to mind, God showed me the immeasurable meaning of His love. He showed me the extravagance that He went through to put a stamp on His love for us. He didn’t hold anything back for us. It was like the window into the reality of who God is for us was opened.

This brings me to the second aspect of this phrase that has stuck with me. It is still as true today as the day God revealed it. In those brief moments of knowing the immensity of His love for us, knowing that we are not alone, knowing that we are loved, we are seen, we are known, that truth is just as true today as it was in those moments. This is the truth of His love.

Life will tend to question this reality. Life is a grind. There are more things in life that will cause us to question this love of God. There are many more things in life that will lead us to the conclusion that God doesn’t care or that God doesn’t even exist. I know because this is my day to day life. Everyday I must fight the experience of being abandoned and forgotten by God.

Yet, there are these moments that are more real than the day to day. There are those moments with God that we wish were our everyday experience.

This season in my life is showing me one thing: I am not alone in experiencing a life that doesn’t make any sense. I am not alone in feeling like God isn’t holding up to His end of the bargain.

There are many more reasons to walk away. There are hundreds of reasons a day to come to the conclusion that God isn’t there. There is only one reason to return to Him. The truth of His love for you is just as true for you today as it was the day He revealed it to you. It takes incredible courage to believe this. But it is the only hope I have.