Episode 332
Embracing God's Unconditional Love
"God loves us just because. He loves you just because you are his perfect child that he knitted together before you were formed in your mother's womb."- Wesleyne
Word of the Day:
"Test me, Lord, and try me, examine my heart and my mind; for I have always been mindful of your unfailing love and have lived in reliance on your faithfulness."- Psalms 26:2-3
In this heartfelt message, Wesleyne emphasizes the importance of understanding and accepting God's unconditional love.
She shares that God's love for us is not based on our performance or actions; rather, it's a perfect love that we don't need to earn.
Wesleyne encourages listeners to recognize their worth as God's beloved children, created with unique traits and characteristics that He cherishes.
She explains that while God's love is unconditional, it doesn't mean we should accept unhealthy behavior from others without boundaries.
Wesleyne reminds us that setting boundaries is essential in maintaining healthy relationships and protecting our well-being.
Ultimately, she urges listeners to bask in the unwavering love of God, knowing that He loves them unconditionally, just as they are.
Takeaways:
- God's love for us is unconditional and unwavering.
- We don't need to earn God's love; He loves us simply because we are His children.
- Setting healthy boundaries is essential in relationships.
- Remembering God's love helps us to love ourselves and others better.
Chapters:
- 00:00 Recognizing God's Unconditional Love
- 01:15 Understanding Unconditional Love
- 03:02 Setting Healthy Boundaries
- 04:45 Embracing God's Love and Loving Others
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Transcript
So very often I meet people that struggle with loving themselves and they say, I just want to love this person better. I want to show up and be a better wife, a better mother, a better daughter. I just wanna have peace and that is my goal. And so I often tell them that it's amazing that you wanna,
show up and love other people well, but we can't love other people well unless we first learn how to love ourselves. And we can't love ourselves well until we first realize and accept that Christ loves us unconditionally. Unconditional love. God loves us unconditionally.
What does that mean? There's nothing that you can do to separate you from his love. This is not love that you have to earn. You don't have to volunteer 25 hours a week at a church or pay 30 or 40 % of your income to a church or spend seven or eight hours on your knees praying. All of those things are great and if...
that those are the activities that God has led you to, please do them. But he loves you just because. He loves you just because you are his perfect child that he knitted together before you were formed in your mother's womb. So before you were even implanted in your mother's womb, he knew you and he loves you.
He created you with that laugh. He created you with that sense of humor, with that smile, with those eyes, with that hair, with the skin that you have. He created you just like that. And when he looks at you, he sees his perfect child. He doesn't see a mistake. He doesn't see a person who needs to run and run and run and try so hard to.
Wesleyne (:earn his love. He just loves you. He loves you. And oftentimes people will hear,
this concept of God's unconditional love and think that, well, God loves me unconditionally, so I have to love everybody else unconditionally. And...
That statement is partially true. Yes, we should love people unconditionally, but we shouldn't love people unconditionally without boundaries. A boundary is a physical thing, an emotional thing, a verbal thing. It is something that you put to protect yourself because while you're loving someone unconditionally, they may not have the tools to love you.
in a healthy, unconditional way. They can take your love and they can manipulate you. They can use it against you. They can be like, well, I thought you loved me, so why don't you just pay all of my bills? Well, I thought you loved me. Why don't you do all of my work? That's not how God loves us. God put boundaries on his love for us. If we remember, if we remember in Genesis, he told Adam and Eve,
I gave you everything. I made everything for you. But that one tree right there, do not eat from it. That was God's first display of a boundary. He said that you can have it all, but don't go there. And the same thing applies to the way that we love other people. I love you completely. However, if you speak to me inappropriately, I will not accept that and I will no longer.
Wesleyne (:allow you to speak to me that way. I can still love you, but I don't have to allow this negativity into my space.
Wesleyne (:So I want you today to focus on God's unconditional love for you. Yes, we have to learn to love ourselves and yes, we have to learn to love other people, but just sit in God's unconditional, unwavering love for you. When we sin, when we mess up, God still loves us. He wants us to repent. He wants us to cleanse our heart, but it doesn't mean because we haven't repented, because we haven't.
Confess to him that he doesn't love us, he just loves us. You may have spent a lifetime running and trying to earn love from other people. Maybe your father wasn't there and so you spent a lifetime chasing men to make them love you, to make them see your value and your worth. Maybe you spent a lifetime running and chasing.
women because your mom never gave you that bonding experience you needed as an infant.
It's okay because although you never felt that earthly form of love from a parent, God loves you. So allow that to permeate in your mind and through your heart and through your spirit. God loves me just because I am. Heavenly Father, today allow us to permeate with these words, with this thought of unconditional.
unwavering love that you give us. This love that you give us that we don't have to perform for it. This love that you give us that no matter what you say, this is what I'm giving you. It is a gift that you don't have to earn. Allow each and every person under the sound of my voice to know how much you love them unconditionally. How much you are rooting for them unconditionally.
Wesleyne (:And remind them that this unconditional love that you have given them doesn't mean that they just love people wholeheartedly, unconditionally without boundaries. Remind us that boundaries are godly, that you have given us boundaries on what we can do or what we can't do. Lord, we love you with our whole heart, our whole mind, our whole spirit. In your son Jesus' name we pray, amen.
