GRACE WHISPERS

  Longing to Be Loved

 

Grace Whispers: We open up the door of our hearts to any man who smiles hoping he would fill the room with our father’s name on it. Our Heavenly Father (and Jesus) wait for us to open up our hearts to them… only they can fill it!

 

 My new book, “My Return Home to Innocence,” (found on Amazon), Chapter 8 titled, “Predators.” This chapter shares how when we are longing to be loved, there will be people, especially predators, (wolves in sheep clothing) ready to prey on us. They come in the disguise of being attentive, loving, and kind. Their only goal is to lure us into a trap and prey on us. I fell into the trap many times because of my great need to “Be Loved.” I wrote an article for Lifetime Ministries several years ago and I feel it is worth sharing again.

 

 

One of the deepest longings of mankind is to be loved. We will do almost anything to be loved. Our whole being craves and thirsts for love, and not for any kind of love, but for pure “unconditional” love. Have you ever wondered why this is so? We will fight each other, manipulate each other, control each other, and even destroy each other when we don’t feel loved. For love, we will try desperately to please each other, sometimes at any cost. We will perform for each other and allow ourselves to be used and humiliated by each other, all for the sake of love; for just one crumb or drop of human love. Have you experienced being in a very destructive, unhealthy relationship? Some relationships can wreak havoc on you emotionally and cause confusion, fear, timidity, hostility, or coercion. There are also other unhealthy relationships where you feel distant, ignored, devalued, and unfulfilled but you find yourself adapting to it, feeling, “It is better than nothing.” Why, because of one crumb of love. I have talked with and met many individuals who were battered and abused emotionally and physically, they always said to me, “But I love them.” I have talked to teenage girls who intentionally got pregnant, why, because “I wanted someone to love me and need me.” This is no mystery; we all need and want to be loved. I too have felt that same sense of despair and desperation and would do almost anything to fill my cup of tainted and unsatisfying human love, only to scrape the bottom of the barrel over and over again and come up short. How could we be so needy and sometimes stoop so low to be loved? And why do we continue to pursue human love with a vengeance, only to find ourselves empty and unfulfilled? Why, because our Father made us this way. Our Heavenly Father, created us for Himself and to give us as gifts to His Beloved Son. We were never created to live and depend on human love, but only from our Father’s love. We were created to be containers of our Father’s pure, heavenly, untainted, infinite, and unconditional love. We were created to experience a love that transcends us, that overflows from us, a love that consumes us, and this love is only found in God. He knew that one day we would come to the end of ourselves and long for something different, and thirst for something to satisfy us when we have done and tried everything to appease ourselves. He knew that we would one day go searching and seeking for His love and once we apprehended it, we would never leave home again, attempting to be satisfied otherwise. One of my favorite passages in the Bible, John chapter 4, talks about the Samaritan woman at the well. It truly depicts the story of every human soul in search of love. We go from thing to thing, person to person, and quickly tire throwing each other away when our needs are no longer being met. One day she met Jesus, who told her about a love, that when you drink it, you’ll NEVER thirst or long for human love again. In Christ, we can drink and be satisfied. In Christ, He fills the longings of our souls. In Christ, we experience a love so rich, so pure, that one drop satisfies us.

 

 

If you are hungry, or if you are thirsty for love…come inside where your Beloved resides, sit and drink of His love.