Loved Before You Are Fully Known
The day is done, and the armor you wore to survive it feels heavy now that you are finally still. You are afraid that if someone really saw the mess behind the mask, they would walk away.
But the light does not need you to be clean before it comes close. It already knows what is in the dark, and it has not left.
There is a love that sees the whole truth of you — every hidden failure, every secret shame — and it does not turn away. It runs to meet you.
Before you can explain yourself, before you can offer an excuse, the best robe is already on your shoulders. You do not have to be fully known to be fully loved.
You are loved so that you can finally be known.
Drawing from
Luke 15:22, 1 John 3:19-20
Verses
Luke 15:22
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