Mom Heart Moments #228

Hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

AN ACHING LONGING PULSES beneath every person’s confident exterior. As the body requires food to live, so a child hungers for love in order to stay alive. Each of us longs for love that embraces, validates, affirms, and whispers to us, “Just as you are, I adore you. You delight me. I think about you. I cherish the day you were born. You are my beloved and always will be, no matter what.”

Each of us was crafted with a space deep within our souls that was meant to be filled with love. No one can see from the outside whether ours is completely empty, containing just a bit, or full to overflowing. Yet each person also has the capacity to fill up another’s deep cavern with words, touch, and affection. When our soul’s space is full, we are most likely to understand and worship God.

Without that filling, we will search for it all of our lives, even in the wrong places —places that promise to give love and fill our hearts, but steal and destroy instead.

A mother’s love is the most constant resource of God’s love, able to sustain, strengthen, heal, and restore a child.

Hundreds of times in Scripture, He speaks to us of love: “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God” (1 John 4:7). “All men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another” (John 13:35). “Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another” (1 John 4:11). “Love covers a multitude of sins” (1 Peter 4:8).

And so we see the necessity of focusing our own lives on love —for God is love.

Is your own soul empty or full today? Spend some time meditating on the truths above, that you may be filled as you remind your soul of God’s deep love for you.