The Difference Between Jesus and the World

We all bleed the same but Jesus bled for us.

Desire. We all desire real love and acceptance. This stems from the real love we crave to know deep in our bones.

Here’s the thing, nobody’s gonna find that in this hurt and broken world. Nobody is perfect except Jesus who is God incarnate. Only He can give us what we desire embedded deep in our core.

This world feeds us lies that we aren’t good enough if we don’t look or act a certain way. Therefore, it’s natural to stoop down to the level of the sort of ‘love’ lacking the substance to be real.

This love is self-seeking, deceiving, one sided, unfulfilling and most of all; it fails.

But true love never fails.

Worldly love fails because it was never real to begin with. There’s always invisible strings attached followed by unanswered questions.

Maybe they’re lonely, maybe I’m lonely, maybe one side is hoping the other side will complete them. Maybe one person cares more than the other. Maybe one person is hurting and needs the other to comfort them. Maybe they’re just pretending.

What if?

What if they leave you? What if they don’t need you? Is the love real? Is someone else better? Can you trust them? Are they judging you? Are they fulfilling you?

Maybe if I lost weight he wouldn’t have left.

Everything was fine but they just stopped talking to me.

I thought they cared?

I thought I mattered?

Rejection. Ouch.

I learned that one when I was young. Who knew we could be so replaceable? I’ll never forget the day a new girl, so charming and fun, took my place as my best friend’s best friend in elementary school. My then best friend told me we can no longer be friends because someone better has come along. I was fun and silly, everything a kid could want in a friend. I just wasn’t new.

If only life could be inclusive and loving no matter who shows up next to you.

I’m sure we all have wondered those questions above regarding our worth and how it somehow was stripped away. I definitely relate to a few.

Although, I’m no saint. Little did I know, I would come to do the same thing to good friends in the near future. Friends who were oh so good and loving, I replaced, in return for something new.

Something I regret often. Because just as I never forgot my first rejection, those beloved people will always remember the hurt I caused them.

Rejection isn’t forgotten, it pierces and cuts deep into hearts causing them to bleed and that sort of thing doesn’t just go away. Rejection implies that someone isn’t good enough; that maybe they did something wrong to deserve it.

That’s what hurts the most. Some people live their whole lives trying to show others that they’re worth it. Although, once someone comes along and shows them they are; they question that person’s motives because deep down, they don’t believe they are.

It’s an endless cycle of ouch that hurt let’s just put a bandaid on that until the next person rips the bandaid off leaving it infected, worse than how it began.

Now what does Jesus want? He just wants you. He has and never will reject you for being you. He holds no selfish motives because He already is more than enough, He’s perfect you know. So why would he want us? Well, because He loves us and created us, just as we are. There’s no quirk or quality about you that could ever scare Him away. His love never fails. That’s because His love is pure.

His love isn’t selfish, it’s not broken, nor a troubled mind. It’s not anxious, nor insecure. It’s endless, yet true.

He’s never gonna leave you, He’s always right there waiting for you to talk to Him so He can heal your hurting heart and show you what true love feels like. He will never replace you or judge the parts of you that you have hidden for the fear of rejection.

Jesus loves everyone so much that He, perfect in all His ways, laid down His life, so we could find life. He was forsaken and took the burden of the sin of the world, so we could be forgiven. He endured hurt so we could have hope.

That is Love.

Give your heart to the One who will never give His heart in pieces.

You have His whole heart and He will always love you, for exactly who you are.

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