He knows you...
"But whoever loves God is known by God." 1 Corinthians 8:3 (NIV)
I didn’t know it at the time, but looking back, I can see many poor choices that stemmed from wanting to be known—to be loved. I mean, trainwreck-level decisions that carried weighty emotional costs. Things I am still healing from decades later.
It really is amazing how strong this drive is. It will overpower our common sense and cause us to accept behavior we normally would run away from. We will settle for far less than we should— yet somehow it’s better than being alone. At least that’s how I felt. I spent so much time looking for someone to really know me, protect me and love me, which resulted in many wrong turns and dead ends.
If I didn’t have people around me, even super dysfunctional and unhealthy people, I felt a sense of panic. A deeply rooted fear of abandonment will do that to you. It wasn’t until I lost several people, that I was determined to find a love that would never leave me.
I finally opened up to the possibility of God, and He began to fill the holes in my heart with His love—holes I had been trying to fill with broken people. The more I felt known by God, the more I loved Him. And the more I loved Him, the more known I felt.
It’s a beautiful dance that never ends.
He knows things about us we don’t even know about ourselves, and yet He will never walk away. His love for us is boundless and inexhaustible. We can never be more known or loved by anyone else in this life, and to try and live otherwise is to set ourselves up for heartache.
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By: Jaime Betters - for more of Jaime's Devotions, check out the Remade Community: http://www.remadecommunity.org/