The secret lies in accessibility.
When our hearts are inaccessible to our spouse or our God, there is a lack of warmth, periods of rejection, a serious longing to be loved.
Yet the draw in our souls would lead us straight into the arms of our spouse and God.
I recently read that God put a window in our souls designed to receive and emit the light of his love.
Do you ever feel that you are truly loved just the way you are?
Do you awaken wrapped in a blanket of unconditional love?
All of our souls are fractured by experience: abuse, rejection, conditional love. Often we put ourselves behind a fence to protect further hurt. We become inaccessible to those we love most and our souls emit waves of hurtful jabs and sarcasm rather than the light of God's love.
We can't love others well until we understand we are well-loved by God.
He longs to pour his love into our fractured souls.
Some years ago I asked God to help me fall in love with Jesus. I was holding Jesus at bay--I embraced the price of the cross but I couldn't let my fractured soul fathom the love spoken by his suffering.
Part of me remained inaccessible.
It is a daily walk to receive love in the window of my soul, before I have served, before I have done anything that I perceive would "earn" that love. To wake up blanketed with unconditional love requires practice in receiving.
Oh, so hard for those of us with fractured souls.
Truly receiving the unconditional love of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit will change us, you know. We will be vulnerable and will need to trust that which our head knows but our wounded heart doubts.
This series began with wondering if we can have a personal and present relationship with God, unique to each of us, just like a marriage--intimate, original, loved unconditionally.
The answer is unequivocally yes.
The secret lies in our opening the window of our soul. The secret lies in accessibility.
Lord, help me become accessible to your present and personal self with which you long to love me.
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