Reaching For His Robe

How can someone so perfect love someone so flawed? I am weak where He calls me to be strong. Fearful where He calls me to be brave. Sometimes even lost when I've already been found. How can He love me as perfectly as He does? This is a love I cannot understand. A love beyond the possibilities of my own heart. 

Every single time I fall and finally give up on sitting in my shame, I look up to find my Father's hand reaching for mine. I am overwhelmed with new blessings that I do not deserve, but why?

Now I know this is the Lord of all we speak of, and I understand the sacrifices that come with His perfect gift of love, I just don't understand what He sees in me.

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Whom am I to deserve such grace? What deeds have I done to deserve such marvelous blessings? Every day you wake me up with a kiss on the forehead and leave a note reminding me of the love you have for me. You perfectly craft my days so that I don't grow comfortable in my faith, but instead challenge me to reach further for your delicate and restoring touch.

I want to see myself the way the Lord sees me. 

Even just for a quick moment.

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A risk of faith, Daughter.

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Nothing Can Separate Us from God’s Love

31 What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? 32 Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? 33 Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself? 34 Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us.

35 Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? 36 (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”) 37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.