it is YOU i have loved all along

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.” (John 3:16 NASB)

Have you ever felt like there is a void in your heart? Is there an absence in your thinking? Do you find yourself battling the world’s problems without any assistance and those walls of the Mountain are closing in all around you…again? Do you find yourself reading every self-help book you are able to find yet you are not able to help yourself and it seems no one else can either?

If you have, there is a very simple explanation as to why you feel this way... you need Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ is the void in that heart. We were all born with it and we try to fill it with material things, accomplishments, promotions, bearing children and of the like. We can spend our entire life trying to fill this void in our hearts with everything except Jesus Christ and we will find when the book of our life comes to a close, we fought and lost the battle. It is very similar when you find your spouse and that void in your heart (which is a different void, a different pining and longing)is filled you realize it is him or her that you had loved all along. When we come to Jesus Christ and He fills that void in our heart with a love that is so magnificent, so awe-inspiring and so undeserving that we become so filled we begin to share it with everyone we know and aim to find more ways to tell others of the Greatness of our Savior. It isn’t that we have loved Jesus Christ all along, but it is that we have longed for Him all along not knowing how to find him through worldly processes. It is more as if when Jesus Christ is hanging on the Cross of our Salvation, we ask, “Why are you doing this? If you truly are who you say you are, then come off of that Cross?” (See Matthew 27:40, Mark 15:29-30 and Luke 23:36-39) As the blood runs from his hands, feet, head and the rest of His body His eyes pierce our eyes and see into our soul as He replies, “I am who I am. And I AM on this cross only because I choose to be. Because it is you I have loved all along!”

Kevin McKanna
September 21, 2009