Can I tell you a love story so marvelous to tell and too lasting to understand?  A love that can only be accepted.  

It’s a story about love, rejection, correction and election.  A story of choice with bitter ends and beautiful beginnings.  A story of a love so deep, so wide, so far, so never-ending that the story continues and the love abides above everything else.

The story began to remedy loneliness and create community.  Like the love we understand, this story was about the love of a father to his children.  The love of a wife to her husband.  The unconditional love that transcends time, space, hurt and replaces them with forgiveness and hope that comes from the never-ending source of love.

This story is about the creation of love, the rejection of love, the redemption of love, the sharing of love, the eternity that is love.  

This story is of flawed humans being used to deliver and reconcile love.  The story of an old man being willing to sacrifice and return what he waited a lifetime to receive, whose faith in love was rewarded with the Lover’s chosen people.  Of a mad man building a boat for 70+ years to save humanity from its own actions.  It’s about a stuttering man leading a throng of malcontents and redeeming a nation.  It’s about a shepherd being made a king, suffering in lust that led to murder who loved as a ‘man after the Creator’s own heart.  It’s about a woman who loved her mother-in-law more than heritage who redeemed her through love and devotion.  It’s a love story of the courage of a Jewish girl who boldly saved her people from annihilation.

This love story is about obedient women and men who chose love over the mob.  Who chose a furnace over earthly honor.  Who chose human rejection for supernatural love.  It’s a story of a young girl accepting the love of the Maker over the condemnation of the mob and a faithful fiancé whose love was honorable in the face of confusion.

It’s a love story so powerful that the creator of love was willing to sacrifice what was perfection and only love, for those who rejected his love.  This love story is so marvelous that those the World rejected were chosen to provide this message of love.  This is a story of example where the ample love of a blameless, sacrificed son, made a way for each of us to choose eternal love.  The story of perfect love.

“Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” 1 Corinthians 13:7 (ESV)

This perfect story of love is tainted when we question the Maker of love and if this love is genuine, without condition and given without requirement.  This love is redeemed and made whole when we trust the provider and accept his unconditional love by surrendering all that we are to all that we are created to be.  

“Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.”  Philippians 4:8 (NIV)

You were made by, for and with love.  You are loved.  You have the inheritance of a love far too wonderful to allow a broken World to define for you.  You are loved by the limitless love of a limitless God who has limitless plans for you, if only you won’t limit your purpose.  The God of all creation knew you by name before you were in your mom’s womb.  He established you and your purpose, your identity and your impact before time began.  He loves you so much that whatever in life has brought you to this point, it was because of the never-ending love that he has for you.

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16 (NIV)

Choose the only love that matters and allow all other love intended for you to flow through the perfect love of the Creator.  You matter.  You are loved.

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.But the greatest of these is love.”  1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIV)

You’ve got this!