Love letters

"Cathedrals have tried in vain to show the image of your face.  But we are, by your design, the signature of divine..." -Needtobreathe



Have you ever questioned your worth? Your place in this world? If you'd ever fit in?
I have.  


One of the most radical things I have come to terms with this summer is God's love. And more specifically...His love for me.  I have begun to see that He loves us not for any good work, generous offering or kind word but for what He created us to be.


2 Corinthians 3:3 says, "And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts."

My entire life, I have loved the concept of love letters.  
Since I am a bit of an old soul...(okay a complete old soul) I absolutely adore the idea of falling in love.  Not the quick summer fling kind of love...but the real thing.  The kind that with effort and care could last a lifetime.  Being a hopeless romantic, I love the idea of somebody being so enchanted by another that they feel compelled to pour their heart out on pen and paper.  Unfortunately this society has cheapened, tarnished and tampered with the idea of love and made it into something quick and easy...and that's where God steps in to our hearts, eager to shatter a sad human misconception and write an exciting truth into our expectant hearts.

God wrote our individual story, created us, and we came to be...quite a crazy thought right?
We are His most beloved creation talking, walking, and living proof of the grand beauty of a King.  Somebody who loved us so deeply that He granted life to mere dust; breathing His fire into the soul.  We have the personal signature of Christ written on every single one of our six billion beating and broken hearts in this world.


Nothing of this world can tear an unbreakable, indestructible Love from our hearts.  
Not devastating heartbreak, the darkness of death pending in our futures, or a twisted society hell-bent on making this life into a lie.


Romans 8:38-39 says, "For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to s e p a r a t e us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."


We are a signature of the Divine.
A signature that may fade and weather on Earth with time, but remains forever inscribed inside the everlasting promise God has made us towards a beautiful Kingdom.  
He has chosen us to awaken us, to carry out a mission so far outside of ourselves for Him.


"You whom I took from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, "You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off"; fear not for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." -Isaiah 41:9-10.


Carry that treasure of information with you today and I'm convinced you'll begin to see yourself differently..


As a letter of love from Love himself.