Realizing How Special And Loved You Truly Are

Maybe you think you’re worthless and have been rejected by pretty much everyone you’ve encountered in life in some way or another. Maybe you aren’t getting much attention and everyone seems to be against you and the world feels lonely and cold right now. Maybe you are feeling like the most unlovable person that ever has existed and like no one could ever desperately desire you or really give all of themselves to you and you are doomed to be alone forever.

Many of us feel this way throughout life, and I dare say a majority of people in life feel this way at some point regardless of the odds stacked in their favor. It just seems to be the way things are in life on Earth and who knows anything different? There isn’t a person that exists that has not experienced rejection or felt unwanted.

Maybe... things aren’t what they seem to be though, and there is more to see and experience if only we would open the eyes and ears of our soul and listen to the echoing truth of who we truly are. While the path through life is cold and dark, we can learn that we are worth far more than we ever dreamed.

You’ve woken up in a prison cell with cold cinder block walls painted a very ugly green, and are laying on a thin ratty mattress that sits on a steel bunk attached to the wall. Your memory is hyperactive and blurry with flashbacks of events you barely remember, yet you seem to be seeing lightning strikes of light in the darkness of the situation. Every strike you get bits and pieces of some horror story that seems to be your recent past and events that have taken place while you were disconnected from reality.

Sitting up you feel like you’ve been beaten and dehydrated, and a drowsiness like you are hungover blankets your perception. You have scars on your arms that seem to indicate you’ve been doing some heavy drugs intravenously and your head is pulsing with a painful but persistent throbbing sensation.

As you look around the room there is a door made of steel bars across from you with a steel grated platform and railing on the other side of it. You can see a large main room outside and through the bars other cell doors on the opposite side. As you see an officer walk by your cell, you ask him where you are and why you are here and he turns to look at you and says, “You don’t know why you’re here?”

You tell the officer with a puzzled tone, “No, I have no clue why I’m here or what is going on.” He laughs at you and replies, “Well, you will find out very soon at your trial...” Getting a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach you sense that your life is over and all is lost for. While trying to remember things and holding your head in your hands another officer brings you a plate of food. You ask him if he knows when your trial is and he tells you that it’s tomorrow bright and early. You sit in bewilderment as you lay back on the small bunk and try to piece the flashing memories together in your mind until you pass out from sheer exhaustion.

The next day you awaken to the sound of a loud door clanking open and a man’s voice telling you, “Get up, it’s time to change into your new jumpsuit.” Slowly you sit up and are handcuffed and held firmly by the arm as five large officers escort you to another section in the building. They remove the cuffs after arriving in a room with a table with an orange jumpsuit for you to change in. Once you’ve changed you are again cuffed and are put into a van right outside in a garage and transported to a court house nearby. Here they introduce you to your lawyer in a room who begins to inform you that you’re undeniably guilty of murder on two counts along with a string of minor drug offenses and are facing the death penalty.

Stunned and in a state of shock you are mortified and perplexed how any of this could be possible. You try to keep your composure but a few tears manage to escape your eyes before you put on a stern face and tell the lawyer, “OK.” You have a strong feeling that there is no fighting this and your fate is sealed, and the only thing left to do is accept it. The officers then escort you into the court room and the judge sits in his chair for the trial, glancing at you above his reading glasses periodically while your lawyer is sitting next to you.

Over the course of half an hour the two lawyers call a series of witnesses to the stand and pose questions to them about horrific things you’ve done and the details they know about them. Your lawyer does not seem to be putting up much of a fight, but tries to create enough doubt to get you off of the death penalty by pleading you were not in your right mind. The courtroom gets silent and the judge tells the jury they can go deliberate on your fate.

While the jurors are deliberating, a man walks into the courtroom wearing a white suit with a red tie and is carrying a briefcase. He introduces himself to the judge as a new member to your legal team and requests the trial be extended for one additional witness. Somehow it seems the lawyer knows the judge and he approaches the front and has a short personal conversation with the judge. After handing the judge some paperwork, the new lawyer has a discussion with your legal team and the bailiff calls a new witness to the stand.

This new lawyer in his white suit steps up on the witness stand and your original lawyer begins asking him questions, “How long have you known this person?” The man replies, “I’ve known them their entire life.” You begin wondering how he knew you and are suddenly confused. The man is asked a series of questions about the crimes you’ve committed, to which he replies one by one that you are innocent of them all.

The lawyer presses the man further and asks, “And how do you know they are innocent?” The lawyer in a white suit and red tie on the witness stand slowly looks at you, and then looks back at the questioning lawyer, and declares, “Because I done those things this person has been charged with.”

The crowd inside the courtroom all gasp and whispering can be heard all over the room. The judge bangs his gavel on the stand, “Order in the court!” and silence resumes. The judge then takes off his glasses, looks at the man on the witness stand, then at you, and calls on the bailiff to arrest him.

Immediately, by account of the man’s confession the judge announces his charge and due inevitable sentencing of the death penalty out loud to the court. The judge declares the trial over, your legal team smiling begins shaking each other’s hands and the man in a white suit being escorted out stops at the table in front of you wearing cuffs before they lead him away. He looks at you with a gentle smile on his face and says quietly to you, “I took your place and will pay for your crimes, now you go live for me.”

Waking up in a prison cell is the same as finding out that no one loves us and we are unwanted and not cared for by most people in this world. The fact is we all have flaws and we are lost in a world of cold people with mostly only selfish desires that do not provide the heart healing love we know deep down we need.

The charges against us are sins we have committed in our own selfishness, telling lies we know we would not want people to tell us, choosing to put ourselves before other people, being unloving to others and holding bitterness in our heart against them. God says we are guilty of murder if we hate another person (1 John 3:15) and that we are guilty of breaking all the rules of love if we have broken one of them (James 2:10). While the world is cold to us, it doesn’t make it alright to break God’s law of love (Matthew 22:37-40) and love is the most important thing in life and the only thing that gives life its purpose. (1 Timothy 1:5 & 1 Corinthians 13:2)

The trial against us is a verdict of Heaven’s court where God must be just and fair to punish evil when it is committed, and we are all guilty even though God loves us and wants to set us free (Romans 3:23). The world’s judgment toward us before our final judgment gives us a taste of what our own sins are doing to others, showing us that we are making the world colder and less filled with love and the purpose found in it. God is love and without love we are destroying the world and falling away from God. (1 John 4:7-8)

This is the situation we find ourselves in without even trying, when we wake up to the spiritual reality we are in. But God would not be satisfied to leave His children (you and me!) to pay for their own crimes against His law of love, if they would but only say they are sorry and follow His ways.

God sent the lawyer dressed in white with a red tie, the Lord Jesus Christ, to stand in your place in the courtroom of Heaven on your judgment day, and to testify that your crimes have been paid for by Him. The punishment that you should be getting, no matter how insane it seems to find ourselves here, God put them on His own Son to take those punishments for you and me.

God spoke to us using His own Son (Hebrews 1:2), and proved just how important and loved you are with His actions rather than just expecting us to believe Him without evidence. He showed through His behavior instead of just speaking, that He loves you more than you could ever fathom or comprehend. (Romans 8:32)

When you feel unloved and abused by the world and other people, and the coldness and loneliness is starting to beat you down, focus your eyes on Jesus and be convinced by the proof of His love for you that God said you were worth dying for. (Romans 5:8)

When the blood of God’s Son, was used to pay the way for your freedom... you can be fully convinced without any doubt that you are far more important and loved than you could ever, ever imagine. You are a priceless possession of infinite value to His heart, and nothing will ever convince Him to give up on you or stop trying to save you or help you until you say no by rejecting Him until the very end. Love cannot be forced onto anyone, and we must choose to love Him for what He has done for us.

If we will receive this love, and accept it, and be filled with His love by trusting His proof that we are priceless gems in His hand (Isaiah 62:3), then we can be overwhelmed by knowing He is always with us (Matthew 28:20) and we will never be thirsty for love or attention again. (John 4:14)

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