Sunday, June 19, 2005
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I THIRST FOR YOU
(Mother Theresa)
"I know you through and through - I know everything about you. The very hairs of your head I have numbered. Nothing in your life is unimportant to me. I have followed you through the years, and I have always loved you - even in your wanderings.
"I know every one of your problems. I know your need and your worries. And yes, I know all your sins. But I tell you again that I love you - not for what you have or haven’t done - I love you for you, for the beauty [and] dignity my Father gave you by creating you in his own image.
"It is a dignity you have often forgotten, a beauty you have tarnished by sin. But I love you as you are and I have shed my blood to win you back. If you only ask me with faith, my grace will touch all that needs changing in your life; and I will give you the strength to free yourself from sin and all its destructive power.
"I know what is in your heart - I know your loneliness and all your hurts - the rejections, the judgments, the humiliations. I carried it all before you. And I carried it all for you, so you might share my strength and victory. I know especially your need for love - how you are thirsting to be loved and cherished. But how often have you thirsted in vain, by seeking that love selfishly, striving to fill the emptiness inside you with passing pleasures - with even greater emptiness of sin. Do you thirst for love? ‘Come to me all you who thirst’ John 7:37). I will satisfy you and fill you. Do you thirst to be cherished? I cherish you more than you can imagine to the point of dying on a cross for you.
"No matter how far you may wander, no matter how often you forget me, no matter how many crosses you may bear in this life, there is one thing I want you to remember always, one thing that will never change: I thirst for you - just as you are. You don’t need to change to believe in my love, for it will be your belief in my love that will change you. You forget me, and yet I am seeking you every moment of the day - standing at the door of your heart, and knocking.
"All your life I have been looking for your love - I have never stopped seeking to love and be loved by you. You have tried many other things in your search for happiness; why not try opening your heart to me, right now, more than you ever have before.
"Come to me with your misery and your sins, with your trouble and needs, and with all your longing to be loved. I stand at the door of your heart and knock. Open to me, for I thirst for you."
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Comments (5)
~lynxkatt
Oh my dear lizziemae, how can anyone with so much love and patience be an awful person? Like all of us, you are who you are, being led by the One who knows and loves you best. Of course we still have flaws. We still stumble. It's part of the human condition. God does not wave a magic wand and make us perfect overnight.
It took me a very long time to believe God could love me. He spent three years just reinforcing His very real and personal love for me before He even began working on my inability to trust Him, or anything else. As the quote above says, "You don’t need to change to believe in my love, for it will be your belief in my love that will change you." I have found this to be so true in my own journey.
The journey to God is a purification, and I have found that while it's true that as we come closer to God and He to us, we are more aware of the darkness that remains in us, we can be encouraged. He who began a good work in us will be faithful to complete it. He loves us.
"...and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God." - Epheasians 3:19
that is one of the most beautiful invitations I have ever heard/read. Mther Theresa really knew the heart of Jesus. Jesus is so amazing.... *tears*