Once again, I find myself eager to share words from The Sacred Romance with you. In a chapter called "The Beloved," the authors Brent Curtis and John Eldredge elaborate on our role as the beloved of God, as matchless individuals whom God through the person of Jesus Christ has pursued no matter the cost.
These words, like many in the book, shook me to the core.
The gospel says that we, who are God's beloved, created a cosmic crisis. It says we, too, were stolen from our True Love and that he launched the greatest campaign in the history of the world to get it back. God created us for intimacy with him. When we turned our back on him he promised to come for us. He sent personal messengers; he used beauty and affliction to recapture our hearts. AFter all else failed, he conceived the most daring of plans. Under the cover of night, he stole into the enemy's camp incognito, the Ancient of Days disguised as a newborn. The Incarnation, as Phil Yancy reminds us, was a daring raid into enemy territory. The whole world lay under the power of the evil one and we were held in the dungeons of darkness. God risked it all to rescue us."
The authors use Helen of Troy as an example: "But whatever else she felt, as the center of an international crisis, Helen must have know beyond a shadow of a doubt that she mattered."
All of us, men and women of Earth, have been God's Helen, the beloved of Christ for whom he risked and gave everything to rescue. We matter.
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