Reckless Love…

Reckless Love. Many would disagree with using a “negative” word to describe His love. The phrase “the reckless love of God” is not at all saying that God Himself is reckless. Rather, the way He loves, is in many regards, quite so. What I mean is this: He is utterly unconcerned with the consequences of His actions with regards to His own safety, comfort, and well-being. His love isn’t crafty or slick. It’s not cunning or shrewd. In fact, all things considered, it’s quite childlike, and might I even suggest, sometimes downright ridiculous. His love bankrupted heaven for you. His love doesn’t consider Himself first. His love isn’t selfish or self-serving. He doesn’t wonder what He’ll gain or lose by putting Himself out there. He simply gives Himself away on the off-chance that one of us might look back at Him and offer ourselves in return.

His love leaves the ninety-nine to find the one every time. To many practical adults, that’s a foolish concept. “But what if he loses the ninety-nine in search of the one?” What if? Finding that one lost sheep is, and will always be, supremely important.

His love isn’t cautious. No, it’s a love that sent His Own Son to die a gruesome death on a cross. There’s no “Plan B” with the love of God. He gives His heart so completely, so preposterously, that if refused, most would consider it irreparably broken. Yet He gives Himself away again. The recklessness of His love is seen most clearly in this – it gets Him hurt over and over. Make no mistake, our sin pains His heart. And “70 times 7” is a lot of times to have Your heart broken. Yet He opens up and allows us in every time. His love saw you when you hated Him – when all logic said, “They’ll reject me”, He said, “I don’t care if it kills me. I’m laying My heart on the line.”

To get personal, His love saw me, 6 years ago, I was a broken down 18 year old girl with fear as deep as the ocean because I needed to make a terrifying decision, I had to decide to have a procedure that would either save my life or literally kill me; I was suffering from bad depression, terrible anxiety attacks almost every night, and PTSD. Yet, He saw fit to use me for His kingdom because He isn’t done with me just yet. I didn’t earn it and I sure as heck don’t deserve it, but He’s just that good. Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God. And 6 years later, I can proudly say I’m here today because of Him and the fact that He’s not done with me and my story.

Everyone has a story, that is just the tip of the iceberg of my story.

To the person who’s reading this tonight, He has reckless love for you too. You just have to trust Him. Sit in that. What does that mean to you? He loves us so much that He’s always there and we don’t have to go through stuff all alone….He’s right there with us. Now if that isn’t love, I don’t know what is.

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Be blessed tonight friends!