How to describe God's love and grace, it's like... He takes you on the perfect honeymoon and you cheat on him, and yet he takes you on a second honeymoon.
I'm wrapping up my second visit in Israel, grace has never been more precious...
"I know you through and through. I know everything
about you. The very hairs of your head I have numbered. Nothing in your
life is unimportant to Me. I have followed you through the years, and I
have always loved you – even in your wanderings. I know every one of
your problems. I know your needs and your worries. And yes, I know all
your sins. But I tell you again that I love you – not for what you have
or haven’t done – I love you for you, for the beauty and dignity My
Father gave you by creating you in His own image. It is a dignity you
have often forgotten, a beauty you have tarnished by sin. But I love you
as you are, and I have shed My Blood to win you back. If you only ask
Me with faith, My grace will touch all that needs changing in your life,
and I will give you the strength to free yourself from sin and all its
destructive power.
I know what is in your
heart – I know your loneliness and all your hurts – the rejections, the
judgments, the humiliations, I carried it all before you. And I carried
it all for you, so you might share My strength and victory. I know
especially your need for love – how you are thirsting to be loved and
cherished. But how often have you thirsted in vain, by seeking that love
selfishly, striving to fill the emptiness inside you with passing
pleasures – with the even greater emptiness of sin. Do you thirst for
love? "Come to Me all you who thirst…" (Jn. 7: 37). I will satisfy you
and fill you. Do you thirst to be cherished? I cherish you more than you
can imagine – to the point of dying on a cross for you.
I Thirst for You. Yes,
that is the only way to even begin to describe My love for you. I THIRST
FOR YOU. I thirst to love you and to be loved by you – that is how
precious you are to Me. I THIRST FOR YOU. Come to Me, and I will fill
your heart and heal your wounds. I will make you a new creation, and
give you peace, even in all your trials I THIRST FOR YOU. You must never
doubt My mercy, My acceptance of you, My desire to forgive, My longing
to bless you and live My life in you. I THIRST FOR YOU. If you feel
unimportant in the eyes of the world, that matters not at all. For Me,
there is no one any more important in the entire world than you. I
THIRST FOR YOU. Open to Me, come to Me, thirst for Me, give me your life
– and I will prove to you how important you are to My Heart...
All your life I have been looking for your love – I
have never stopped seeking to love you and be loved by you. You have
tried many other things in your search for happiness; why not try
opening your heart to Me, right now, more than you ever have before.
Whenever you do open
the door of your heart, whenever you come close enough, you will hear Me
say to you again and again, not in mere human words but in spirit. "No
matter what you have done, I love you for your own sake Come to Me with
your misery and your sins, with your troubles and needs, and with all
your longing to be loved. I stand at the door of your heart and knock.
Open to Me, for I THIRST FOR YOU…"
-Mother Theresa-
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