\u201cFor I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.\u201d \u00a0Romans 8:38-39 CSB
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This promise is one we can never hear enough. \u00a0I don\u2019t think any of us truly believes God loves us unconditionally. \u00a0I think we all have those little niggling thoughts at the back of our heads that try to make us doubt the truth of this statement. \u00a0I could be wrong, but I came from a family that has shown me unconditional love, and I still find it hard to believe. After all, I know all my deep, darkest secrets. \u00a0But He does. His words says He does, and we’re to believe it.
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After I graduated college, I was flight attendant. During that period of time, I made one of the most grievous mistakes of my life. Thinking of it now makes me shudder. I will never forget how my family loved me through it, specifically my Mom and my little brother. I called my brother first, it was a Friday night, I was living in VA Beach, he was in Williamsburg. I was in tears when I called. When he answered, I said, \u201cI\u2019ve done the stupidest thing. I\u2019m not lovable anymore.\u201d You know what he said to me, he said, \u201cThere is nothing you could do that will make me stop loving you. Come on home, I\u2019m here waiting.\u201d And he was. I drove home that night and confessed my horrible sin and he never stopped loving me, he helped me through it.
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A couple days later, as I was leaving my Mom\u2019s house I told her. She was standing at her front door, I was in the driveway. I never told her the details, I just told her I\u2019d done something that I was ashamed to admit, I hadn\u2019t listened to the advice she had given me. She just looked at me with love in her eyes and said, \u201cDid you learn from it?\u201d I said yes, I certainly had. She said \u201cThat\u2019s all that matters, I love you.\u201d
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I am blessed, I have experienced unconditional love in my life, more than once. But a lot of people haven\u2019t. They don\u2019t know what it is like to be accepted no matter what. That is exactly what God does for each and everyone one of us. He says, there is nothing we can do that will stop Him from loving us. If you make a mistake, learn from it and keep going. He loves you.
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I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve experienced unconditional love or not. \u00a0Either way, I pray today, wherever you are, you will accept that God loves you unconditionally. \u00a0There is absolutely nothing you can do to stop Him from loving you. He always has, always will, always does.
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