God loved us first.
I realized that it is of utmost
importance for us to understand that it is God who loved us first. This simple
truth carries a huge and wonderful and life-changing meaning from it. Realizing
and absorbing what this fact means is such a revitalizing and freeing feeling. It’s
a very magical and splendid thing – that God loved us first.
Hey, God loved us first.
Just, wow. Even before we
were born, God knew us and planned the best outcome for our lives and how he
would love us. Even before we came to know Him (or even if we don’t know Him
yet) God loved us already. Even before our parents met, and their parents met
and their grandparents met – God already loved us. Before we even knew who we
were, who he was – he loved us. I don’t know how much more astonished I can
sound to be, but It’s really a wonderful realization to know that God loved us
looooooong before we could even care.
God loved us first. How is that
supposed to be astonishing? Because even before we proved to be best in
English, best in Math, best employee, best daughter, best son, best parents,
best singers, best puzzle solvers, best cake bakers, best fans, best
hairdressers… God, you see, He already loved us. Even when we were still struggling
writers, struggling singers, struggling human beings, God was already looking
at us with eyes full of love. Even before we thought and believed we are
something, God has already been eyeing us as apples of His eyes. Even before
pageants, to God we were already his universe.
So why are we trying so hard? Why
are we always trying to please others? Why are we always aiming to be better
for the people around us than for our God and for ourselves? Why are we so
afraid of being left alone if we’re “no one” in this world? Why are we so
afraid of not being the best in this world? Why are we bothering to have the
best cars? The best mansions? The best gadgets? Why are we bothering too much
about them that we forget that even if we have nothing, the love that has been
given to us before time began will always remain?
Most of all, why must we lose
hope with every failure and mistake we commit? Why are we scared to fail? In effect, being
scared to fail makes us want to control things… leading us to trust less. So
why are we afraid to trust, if to begin with there is this constant love from
our constantly loving and able God?
This is a liberating truth: God
loved us first. It's liberating to know that the God of the macro and the micro, the beginning and the end, the grand designer of this amazing universe loves every square inch of our being. It's freedom to come to the realization of such an unconditional and out of this world love. God so loved the world (and every single being in it) that He sent even His own Son for our sins.
God soooo loved you and me– and there is nothing we can do to change it. J
