The Light Loves The Face Beneath
The armor feels heaviest right now, just as the sun goes down. You are terrified that if they actually saw the mess behind the mask, they would walk away.
So you keep polishing the surface, hoping love will stick to the performance instead of the person. But the light does not love the mask — it loves the face beneath it.
There is a knowing that goes deeper than your fear of being found out. God is greater than your heart's verdict that you are unlovable.
The truth lives inside you, and it will be with you forever. You do not have to earn the right to be known.
You only have to stop hiding the one who is already held.
Drawing from
1 John, 2 John
Verses
1 John 3:20, 2 John 1:2
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