Already Loved
Jeremiah 31:3 – I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself.
The day I lost one hundred pounds, I expected fireworks.
I had imagined it over and over: stepping onto the scale, seeing the number, and somehow feeling more loved by God than I did before. In my mind, I thought He would put His arm around me and whisper, “Now you are worthy. Now you are enough.”
But there I was in my own bathroom, standing barefoot on the scale, and nothing about God’s love had changed one ounce.
It was the same steady love I had known the day I could barely bend down to tie my shoes. The same love that was there when I sweated just from peeling an orange. It was the same love that never flinched when I turned to food because I did not know what else to do with my sadness.
The truth settled in slowly like the way a sunrise sneaks over the horizon. I had not earned more of His affection by shedding pounds. And the irony of it made me smile.
I was chasing a reward I already had. Yes, the discipline mattered. Yes, the growth was worth celebrating. But none of it increased the love of God that had been constant from the start.
I stepped off the scale lighter, not just in body but in heart. And it left me wondering: how many of us are still waiting for some future breakthrough to feel loved, when we are already standing in it?
— Micah Tyler
A MOMENT TO REFLECT
- Have you ever believed you needed to earn God’s love through performance or progress?
- How does Jeremiah 31:3 challenge the way you see your worth?
- What would it look like for you to live today as someone who is already fully loved?
- Where in your life is God inviting you to rest, rather than strive, in His affection?
