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Jill Eileen Smith
bestselling author of the wives of King David series

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    On Sunday, my pastor said something that really gr On Sunday, my pastor said something that really grabbed me:

“The greatest maturity is choosing love the way God chooses love, in spite of the pain it causes. Before He created us, God saw Calvary; He saw betrayal; He saw rejection. And He still chose to create us.

“Because He saw something beyond the pain. Beyond the cross. He saw a wedding.”

All this week I have been asking myself if I see a wedding beyond the pain? Because that is the perspective that matures love.

I would guess that most of us fail to do this at some point. Fail to love in spite of the pain at every single opportunity.

Our pastor also said that another part of maturity is that we hear the voice of God louder than the voice of shame.

I think this is such an important reminder. When we fail, particularly when we fail at love, shame moves into the neighborhood so quickly, it makes your head spin. Shame wants to destroy you when you fail. But the voice of God reminds us that we are God’s beloved, even if we have failed.

Even if we haven’t loved well, we are still the beloved.

So today, as you read this, let that truth shape your day. Think of the wedding beyond the pain.

Photo: my wedding!
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