He just loves us. She just loves me. I just love it all!

For those of you tuning into "The Story of My First Love," thanks for enjoying it and sending me encouragement as I open up this part of my life for all to see the ways God has/is/and will move in my life to bring me satisfaction in him and how He glorifies Himself through it all.

I want pause from the story for this time, and share something. Sometimes, isn't it hard to us to understand and grasp the love of Christ. Well, someone displayed it to me just lately in a way that I will never forget. When I see her, I just think this is the way Christ loves me. She doesn't know that she made such an impact on me, but Christ used her in such a way to glorify himself.

This is a fairly new relationship that is beginning to bloom. I didn't know much of this friend and have never really paid much attention to her in the past. I didn't think she liked me or cared for me. But, just recently, she just (there really are no other words than the following) started to love me. She is quick to want to be with me, and wants to just know about me. We embrace with hugs and share fun moments together, as I stumble over my Spanish and she is gracious to understand and help me.

So, how does this relationship relate to how Christ loves us. Well, basically, I did nothing in this new relationship. I did not seek it, I did not really desire it (although now I wouldn't trade it for the world), and I certainly did nothing to make her want to be my friend or to seek out a friendship with me. She just decided, one day, that she wanted my friendship and began to do things to seek it.

So, here we are, friends, developing this friendship, where she loves me for who I am, and not what I can do or not do for her. Is that not just like Christ? He loves us for the people that we are, all sinful in our human nature, and there is nothing that we can ever do to make him love us more. He just loves us. She just loves me. I just love it all!