Can you share a positive example of where you’ve felt loved?
Im not sure how to have a negative example of feeling loved, regardless I will share two of my most positive examples of feeling love.
The first example was September 17th, 2021. I pray to never forget the day, like the Israelites forgot their miracles in the wilderness. The miracle that occurred the morning of the 17th, is the miracle that is destined for all who come to believe. While I lay at rest, not sleeping but not awake, I felt this feeling wash over my entire existence. I felt a calling and that all my past was washed away and I knew He is real. I knew Jesus is real and felt his merciful forgiveness for all that I have done. It was a feeling of love I cannot fully describe, but it was so pure and powerful that it a love that could only come from God.
The second example occurred nine days later on September 26th. This love came through my wife but am sure it originated with God. The days between these two events were powerful, I believe God was building my faith for what was to come. On this day again early in the morning, I became even more free from my past when, after confessing to my wife 15 years of sin against her, she forgave me. It was a powerful decision that I know God must have empowered her to make.
I believe if this decision was laid out to others, not many would be able to make the same choice, and many would say she was wrong for it. Regardless, she did and again in this moment I felt indescribable love.
The following months were not easy to say the least. Our true forgiveness can take much longer than God’s, and rightfully so. Since these events, the love I felt from these two sources has encouraged me to follow Christ and to be a godly husband.
The greatest choices are sometimes the hardest to make. My wife made one of the hardest, if not the hardest, I have ever witnessed a person make. I try to repay her for the love she showed me that day, but I’m not sure if I will ever be able to.
The love I felt from Christ, on the 17th and since, has encouraged me to help others to feel this love. I cannot describe how to feel it to others, if I could it would be to seek Him, ask for his forgiveness, and if He forgave me He can forgive anyone.
”Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.“ 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV
”You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.“ Jeremiah 29:13 ESV
”but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.“
Romans 5:8 ESV
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