LET ME LOVE YOU

When people and situations have left us hurt, wounded and broken, it’s easy to put up walls around our hearts to try to protect ourselves from experiencing that same pain again. Inadvertently, when we do this, we also sometimes shut God out as well.

During my season of greatest brokenness following my divorce, I had put up so many walls as my own personal protective mechanism. That season was the result of much rejection and abuse coupled with the exposure of my ex’s unfaithfulness. So much trust had been broken that I didn’t ever think I could let anyone get close to me again.

I went hard after my healing and would sit with the Lord for hours in worship and spend countless time in His Word. I remember one time specifically that He spoke a word to my heart - let Me love you. During a time when I was unable to let anyone else in, He broke through those iron-clad walls and loved me in a way I had never known before.

The love of God was displayed at the cross (Romans 5:8). That love is what is still healing hearts today. Isaiah 61 tells us that one of the many reasons Jesus came was to ‘heal the brokenhearted’, and as I have journeyed through life since my divorce, He has proven His love to me and healed me in such a way that when I share my story with people who didn’t know me back then, they are always astonished that I experienced everything that I did. That is because God heals us with His lavish, unending, faithful and unchanging love…when we let Him.

“I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to Myself.” - Jeremiah 31:3