Unconditional Love

From Postcards From Heaven--Claire Cloninger

Dear child of mine,

As you were growing up in this imperfect world, you learned that if you were a good little child, you would be loved. This is the kind of love the world is famous for. It is called "conditional love" because it comes with conditions--with strings attached. It is love you must work and strive and struggle to earn. But it is not real love. It is a counterfeit--a cheap forgery of a priceless masterpiece.

My love is real and unconditional. It cannot be earned. Try to understand this truth, for it will deeply affect the way you live your life: You cannot make me love you more by anything you do or do not do. And you cannot make me love you less by anything you do or do not do.

Take a minute and read those two sentences again. If you are willing to allow my deep, true, unconditional love to seep down into your wounded spirit, that love will make you whole. And from the endless stream of love I shall put within you, true repenance will flow. Then you will love a good life, not in order to make me love you, but because I already do love you! You will be set free to live with joy and abandon. You will be released to love others with this same kind of love.

Does it sound too good to be true? Dare to believe it. Open your heart to receive it. You will never be the same.
Unconditionally,
GOD

"This is what real love is: It is not our love for God; it is God's love for us in sending his Son to be the way to take away our sins." 1 John 4:10