Words of Wisdom Wednesday - On Being Loved by Jesus

 "...love by its very nature is not dependent on the loveliness of the beloved. 

If you felt yourself to be lovely, you could feel loved to a degree, but you could not be astonished with how loved you are.

It's precisely our messiness that makes Christ's love so surprising, so startling, so arresting - and  thereby so transforming."

-Dane C. Ortlund in Deeper