A Love That’s Weathered.
A truly unconditional type of love.
I woke up this morning after having a nightmare.
It’s been a while since I had one. For as long as I can remember, I’ve had nightmares at least once a week.
I remember how I used to go and wake my parents up and say :
Mummy, daddy, I had a bad dream.
I remember them listening, sometimes writing it down, but most importantly, I remember them praying against the dream and praying for me.
As I grew older, I could no longer call or inform them of every single nightmare I had, just the ones I felt were relevant maybe to our family or ones that I felt I’d need back up in praying against.
As is customary for me, today after the nightmare, I woke up and planned to write it down and pray about it. I felt really tired at first, but I prayed about it for about 2 minutes.
And suddenly, I felt this overwhelming presence of God. Like peace swarming all over me. I felt like I was being consumed by God’s love.
I must confess, It has been a while since I felt like this.
I got so emotional, my heart was heavy and a song started in my spirit:
You have been so good to me, God I can’t believe how you love me. What a friend You have been.
It’s a song by Elevation worship.
I played it, listened to it.
Then another song started in my head.
How sweet it is to trust you Jesus, to know you,I mean really know you. Father, Son and Holy Shepherd, a love so deep, it can’t be measured. A love that’s real, a love that’s weathered.
Weathered- Dante Bowe and Bethel music.
It’s normal after a scary dream to be afraid. But I felt God’s love so much that it dispelled every single form of fear that I had.
I then was reminded yet again of this Bible Verse:
‘Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love. ‘- 1 John 4:18
Perfect love casts out fear.
Gosh I am grateful and quite overwhelmed for the love that God has for me. I do not in any way deserve it. None of us do.
But I’m grateful for a God that loves me in spite of and despite all that I am and all I have been. I’d be nothing without that love.
‘God showed how much He loved us by sending His one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through Him. This is real love — not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and His love is brought to full expression in us. ‘- 1 John 4:9–12
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-Sharon Stephen
