You are not hard to love, Child of Love. Who you are is Who God says you are. You were never someone whose heart was meant to be handled carelessly. So do not own anything anyone says about you that does not agree with God’s definition of who you are. You were created with a beautiful depth, a precious tenderness, and the sacred worth of Heaven’s own heart that declared your value and identity before creation took its first breath. Your heart was never designed to be held by unhealed hands. Somewhere along the way, someone who did not understand the true meaning of Love, someone who was not carrying Love Himself inside their own heart, tried to make you believe that you were the problem. They acted as if their mistreatment was your responsibility, as if their behavior was something you caused. But unloving hearts cannot tell the truth about you because they cannot see the truth until they have encountered the Truth. They cannot define you when they do not even know who they are. They cannot rewrite the beauty of who you are because they did not create you or write your story. They are not called nor qualified to speak over your identity. They do not even know their own identity or they would never have treated you that way. What you were experiencing was their insecurities inside themselves and their low sense of worth. Their behavior is on them, not you.

You are loved beyond heaven’s measure. You were worth it all to Jesus ~ every stripe, every wound, every breath, every drop of blood. His Finished Work is the eternal proof of your worth. And when you finally learn that your identity, your value, and your worth come from WHO Love Himself says you are, everything inside you begins to lift and shift. You start to love yourself with His Love. You start to see yourself through His eyes ~ eyes that have never once looked at you with disappointment or irritation, but only with tenderness, pleasure, and tender affection.

And as Love Himself heals your sight, you also learn how to hold others in Love. You forgive others as Love has forgiven you. You release them into His hands because forgiveness frees your heart, not theirs. You pray for those who hurt you, not because their behavior was acceptable, but because you know their hearts are wounded and in need of the same Love that healed you. Wisdom teaches you that they must do their own healing heartwork ~ their own reconciling with Love Himself ~ or else you could set yourself up for a repeat of the same unloving and unkind behavior. Love does not ask you to return to what broke you. Love asks you to bless them from a distance while they let Love Himself mend what is shattered inside them.

And as you begin to see yourself through the eyes of Love Himself, you learn to stand in His Loving truth. You stop bending to disrespect. You stop shrinking to make others comfortable. You stop allowing people who refuse to love themselves to decide how lovable you are. When you know your worth, you stop letting anyone treat you as if you have none. Their behavior is on them, not on you. You did not cause their unkindness. You did not provoke their mistreatment. You did not make them act unloving. Their choices reveal their own wounds, their own broken places, their own unhealed stories. You cannot fix what is hurting inside someone else’s heart. That is the work of Love Himself, not yours.

So lift your chin, Child of Love. Stand tall in who you are. Do not bend to anyone’s disrespect, mistreatment, or unloving ways in the name of “love.” That is not Love asking you to bend to their brokenness or carry the weight of their unhealed places. The only bending you can do is to bend your knee and pray for them to be healed in the name of Love Himself, because only Love can reach the places in them that you were never meant to carry. You are not hard to love ~ you are deeply, fiercely & eternally loved. You are loved with a Love that counted the cost and still chose you. You are loved with a Love that calls you worthy, precious, chosen, and whole.

You are not hard to love. You are loved hard ~ by Love Himself.

Heart2Heart in His Love,

Momo Smiley

 

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