The Kind of Love That Doesn't Walk Away

Some people walk into church with confidence. Others drag themselves in, barely breathing, hearts stitched together with threadbare hope.

This is for the second group.

This is for the ones who’ve been ripped apart by people they trusted. 
The ones who were walked on, overlooked, and used until they believed that’s all they were good for. 
The ones who kept giving and giving, just to be left empty.

If that’s you, then you’ve probably heard people say, “God loves you.” But instead of feeling comforted, it just made you uncomfortable. 

Because it doesn’t feel true.

How could it?

When you’ve been told you’re too much. Or not enough. 

When your needs were ignored. 

When love always came with strings attached....or disappeared when you needed it most. When the people who should have cared either left or broke you.

That kind of history doesn’t just go away. It teaches you that you’re hard to love. Unworthy. Disposable.

So when someone says “God’s love is unconditional,” it sounds like a foreign language. Or worse .... like a cruel joke.

But here’s the truth - 

God’s love isn’t like theirs.

He doesn’t love you because you’ve earned it. 

He doesn’t love some future version of you who finally gets it together. 

He loves you, right now, in all the mess.

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. - Romans 5:8

While we were still breaking things. Still hurting. Still doubting. Still wrecked by the fallout of what others did to us...or what we did to ourselves.

He looked at us, saw the whole story, and still said, “You’re worth it.”

That love isn’t surface-level. It’s not performance-based, and it doesn’t disappear when you’re struggling.

The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.  - Psalm 34:18 

You don’t have to fix yourself to be close to God! 

He draws near to the broken. 

He stays. 

He listens. 

He understands what it’s like to be crushed - Jesus lived it. 

He was rejected, misunderstood, abandoned. 

He gets it.

If you’ve spent your life trying to be small so you wouldn’t be a burden, God says, "You are seen".

If you’ve numbed yourself to survive, He says, "You don’t have to live in survival mode anymore".

He doesn’t push away the anxious, the angry, the addicted, or the ones still trying to figure it all out!

Especially not them!
And especially not you!

So yeah, maybe you don’t feel lovable. Maybe you were taught that love always comes with a price. But God’s love already paid that price!

And He’s not going anywhere!

Even if you’re full of doubt. 

                                    Even if you can barely whisper a prayer. 

Even if all you can say is, “God, if You’re real... prove it.”

He hears that. He honors that. 

And......He stays.

You may not feel it yet. But you’re not invisible. You’re not forgotten. You’re not too broken.

You are loved - fully, fiercely, without condition.

Yes.... I'm talking to YOU!