Never Alone...Fully Known

Ya know...it's so amazing to know that we are never alone. We have Jesus, who lives to intercede for us, and He has been everywhere we have been and has experienced every emotion we have experienced...and He had VICTORY.

Those tears you're crying? Jesus cried, too...and He holds your tears in a bottle...not one goes unnoticed. The pain in your heart? Jesus experienced pain, too...in SO many ways: physical, emotional, mental. But He didn't let that pain keep Him from doing His Father's will...what He came to this earth to do. He chose to keep His eyes on His Father. To take time to be with Him. to delight in Him. He knew that was the only way life could go. And He wasn't afraid. Because He knew His Father. He TRUSTED His Father.

But He became like us, so that we would have someone to go to when it feels like no one else understands or gets it. So that when He sees us, He can go to His Father and say, "Hey Dad...you see that one down there? Yeah...the one who is hurting, but still looking to You for strength? I love them. I remember when I was hurting, and I came to You...and You and I together, we figured things out. I know how they feel...and I just want to come to You on their behalf...because I love them." Jesus intercedes for us. He takes the prayers we pray and brings them to the feet of the Father. He takes wherever we are at...and totally gets it. He cups our face with His hands and says, "I know...I know." He is closer than you know. He is nearer than you think. He is loving you. He is relentless in His compassion over you. He is singing over you. He is dancing over you. He is delighting in you. He has His eyes on you...and His heart SET on you. He tells you that you don't need to be afraid. He tells you that He is peace...and that His yoke is easy and His burden is light. He says that you are precious in His sight.

He says that He loves you.

Don't miss that, friend.
He says that He loves YOU.

Do you know how amazing it is to be loved by Him? What it feels like to be held in His embrace? Do you know what it's like to run into His arms just as you are and have Him hold you? Do you know what it's like to live in His joy and freedom? Do yo know what it's like to walk in His peace? Do you know what it's like to not have all that junk in your life wiped clean out and be able to live like Jesus? Do you know what it's like to live under no condemnation? Do you know what it's like to be seen as blameless? Do you know what it's like to be seen as whole...and holy? Do you know what it's like to be FREE?

That's what His love does for you. That's why He became sin for us...so that we might become the righteousness of God. So that when God looks at us, He sees not our unrighteousness, but Jesus-pure, blameless, and holy. The One who took our place. The One who bore our sins. The One who bore our pain so that we don't have to...because He gets it. He understands.

By HIS striped we are healed.
We are precious to Him.
YOU are precious to Him.
YOU are loved by HIM.

And because of that crazy love, friend...YOU ARE NEVER ALONE. ♥