Fiercely LovedSample

Do the words fiercely loved quicken a spark of hope within you?

Or did you immediately disqualify yourself from such an intense promise?

Either way, a deep knowing that you are fiercely loved is vital because it changes everything.

There is nothing passive or indifferent when it comes to how your Creator feels about you. We’ve all heard the phrase “Jesus loves you” so many times that it has become white noise. When was the last time you felt his love wash over you and lift you when you thought you least deserved it? His love is not just words; it is life. A larger, wilder, and more dangerous love than anything we’ve ever known or experienced. A love far vaster than the sum of all expressions of human love. God doesn’t have love for you. He is love for you. He is not merely in love with you. You are immersed in his love. And once it touches you . . . you are never the same.

His love consumes and refines even as it comforts and restores. I understand that by attaching fiercely to loved, I added a measure of danger, making it sound as though this love would threaten to consume the objects of its affection. Understandably, this pairing of fierce and love is a wild and rare one. At a bare minimum, this type of love would leave its mark on us. We glimpse this coupling Song of Songs: Love as strong as death and jealousy as fierce as the grave.

These are beyond any human’s capacity to maintain. A love of this intensity can be ascribed only to the One who first made us, then gave his all to prove his love for us. It reminds me of a quote about Aslan from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: “He’s wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.”

The God Most High, Creator of the heavens and earth, is not a manageable deity that we control or manipulate. He means what he has said about you. His heart is set on you, and nothing you do or say can remove his seal of love from you. In Christ, his love is forever settled. It is now time for you to settle it for yourself.