I was listening to Jonathan David Helser and Graham Cooke in
the recording entitled “The Inheritance”.
One of the phrases Jonathan sings is, “I want Your eyes to
be my mirror”. I thought, “If Your eyes are my mirror, I would see me as You
see me, and know that I am loved.” I was going to say “worthy of love” but that
was too hard to write.
Why is that?
Is anyone worthy to be loved? We are taught not! We are even
taught that grace is unmerited favor. One of the definitions of unmerited is:
unworthy; Lacking in value or merit.
But, as I am thinking about it, I have to say we ARE worthy
of love, simply because He decided we are. Who else could determine worth, but the
One who created a personality and an individual out of love and fashioned of
love? Love is a substance formed into me!
You took a part of Your heart and did not diminish in the
taking. You…God…You…Jesus…are like the bread broken in the hand of the disciples
to feed the crowd. In the giving…in the disbursing…the bread multiplied! There
was no lack, no deficit. In the breaking and giving, there was multiplication;
expansion of the original.
So, this piece of Your heart, which is ME, is worthy of
love. You are 100% ALL IN in loving me. You created me to love. That was ALWAYS
your intention. I AM Your heart on earth as You are in heaven.
Your eyes tell me who I am…
You love me all the way—all the time. I am the beloved.
Outrageously! Radically loved! Simply because You don’t know how to BE anything
else! You are love. The I AM LOVE! If
You are love, You cannot BE or DO otherwise! It is Your IDENTITY! And mine is
LOVED! That is who I am. That is My IDENTITY! That is my NAME!
And…apparently I can only love You as much as I love myself,
so THAT is a weird thought.
Set me free from how I see myself and the smallness of my
own perceptions. Mostly, uncertainty…THAT is a form of fear and fear has no
place in love.
Malcom Smith wrote:
The Incarnation means He came inside our humanity and He sat
inside our mental darkness; inside our fears. He looked out through my eyes and
said, “I see what you see, but now let me tell you the truth,” and He tells you
from the INSIDE, that the Father loves you.
You see, Jesus came down and got inside of us, and He got
right down into “death” that was ours. Then He walked us out in resurrection
and ascension and He carried us home to the Father where we belong.
SELAH
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