The Voice of Truth

I wrote this about a month ago and have shared parts of it before. I do not believe that this contains much of me at all. I truly believe that this is something God wrote on my heart that I am simply putting on paper.This is a truth from the mouth of God. This is just a portion of what I feel he has been teaching me recently. This is about love, and if you have ever struggled with giving, accepting, understanding, or being loved, I think that you should read more.

Far to often, we lose sight of who we truly are. We have this deep, intrinsic need to know our purpose, our name. So we search and seek to earn a label, to gain glory or respect. And as we search in this world, we do not tend to find who we are, but rather we listen to lies of who we are not. And that is what begins to define us. We become deceived into thinking we are all the things we are not. We believe the lies in the chaos that surrounds us. They are whispered in our ears, voices of imperfect people defining who we are, who we are not, who we should be. But the most important Voice of all, His Voice seems to escape us. You see it whispers, "You are Loved". The Voice seems quiet at first, faint and subtle, easy to ignore or overlook. Of course, when we are listening and focusing on all the others telling us we are worthless, we are nothing, we are imperfection, we are guilt, His Voice seems to melt within the noise.  But The Voice is persistent. It never ceases, "You are Loved".

        But we don't listen, and it breaks His heart. It kills Him that we refuse to turn and look and focus on the only Voice that could truly define us. You see, it is with this Voice that we are given freedom, purpose, worth, and our true identity.

The Voice comes from the mouth of the One who created us, the One who formed us, the One who placed each hair on our heads and has them numbered, The Voice of the one who knows our every thought, our every motive, our every shortcoming. The Voice comes from the Perfect One, who despite knowing us fully, sees far beyond what our feeble minds can comprehend, and He begins to groan and plead in an ever-increasing whisper, “YOU are Loved”.

 And our refusal to listen to Him makes Him desperate. "You are Loved!" His voice grows ever louder and still we will not give ear. And this drives the Father crazy. It drives Him mad with grief. And He knows that He must gain our attention because we are everything to Him. We are treasured and holy and perfect to the Creator. But we keep missing it. Time and again we turn to other things, defining ourselves by all the other voices, by our demons and fears and the Fallen himself. And it drives the Father insane with agony over His lost children, jealous with His desire for us. It drives Him to do the most desperate, generous, painful thing He can think of, the only way to gain our lost souls and lost attention. He sends His Own into our brokenness, into our world of confusion and sadness and damaged voices, voices that speak from a deceived mind. He comes in the Name of His Father, in the Name of who He is, in the Name that is above all Names, in the Name that defines all and Loves all. He comes to rescue us from the lies, from the false identity that chains our souls, to understand us. He sends His Son to prove once and for all "YOU ARE Loved"

I Am Loved. God and us are apart of the same sentence. The Great I Am next to the objects of His Love. And it is this Love, this identity, this Truth that draws us into the palm of our Father, that gives us Hope and Joy and Purpose and all His goodness lavished upon us. It inspires our hearts to break for the lost, the broken, the children of the Great I Am. Because His heart breaks, so does ours. And it is all because the Father’s gentle whisper sets a fire in our souls- uncontainable, uncontrolled, “You are Loved”.

Until we listen to the Voice, until we stop and listen and look up and allow the arms of Grace, the Faith of the Father, The Voice of Truth to Love us, we will remain utterly lost. We will remain feeling un-whole, like something is missing. We will continue, tangled up in the lie as old as time itself. Until we stop listening to the lies of the Fallen and the fears and demons that attack us in Spiritual warfare and until we listen to the only Voice we need, the only Voice that matters, the Voice we long for deep inside our souls, we cannot function. Not really. We will only be a shell of who we are really created to be.

We do not have to find our identity. We have one, given to us freely. Do you see it? Because it is of the upmost importance that if you believe in the Christ, you understand this; "YOU ARE LOVED" because that is Him. It is who He is and who He calls you to be. The Great I Am tells you that you are His beloved! Loved beyond reasoning, beyond imagining, beyond belief. That is who you are. You have to know this to know Him! We are pieced together in His redemption. Without Love, there is nothing! You cannot love, not fully, until you grasp even a glimmer of His unconditional Love for you. It doesn't matter how smart or wise or popular or successful you are. It doesn't matter how gross and disgusting and broken and self-addicted you are. It is not who you are not, but who He says you are. This is present tense, not future, not past. It is a word that is eternal. Presently, this is who you are. He looks at you with His perfect eyes and sees whom He created perfectly. He sees His blameless, perfect, righteous child. He sees the ones He Loves! And you can do nothing to change that. You can neither earn Love nor lose it. We are literally bathed in this identity, covered in the blood of Love, safe and protected in the shadow of the cross. If you don’t believe this Truth, you call the Perfect Father a liar. And He cannot be what He is not. And He is Love. And Love does not lie. So stop hiding and running and look up, because He guarantees that when you finally face Him, you will fall to your knees, renamed by Love. Unconditionally, irrevocably, undeniably, YOU. ARE. LOVED