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Abide in This Love

 


Plagued by rejection and trauma,

the body keeps the score,

replaying the thoughts of everything that broke you

as if it were not enough —

it chooses to dwell there,

imprisoning and binding itself to those wounds

till your body freezes,

paralyzed and haunted by memories.


Is there no escape?

Is there no remedy?


A still, small voice makes an appeal:

Ascribe to God the glory due His Name.


Ascribe to God the glory —

now, when I am trapped in these thoughts?


Again, a whisper:

Remain in His love.


How do I remain in His love

when these memories haunt me?

I hear You saying,

For God so loved the world…


Take a minute.

Bask in this truth.


For God so loved the world,

for God so loved me,

that He gave His only Son.


When I feel the world has taken,

God loved me — and the world —

and gave His only Son.


First it was personal.

Then suddenly hope arose —

not just for me,

but for the world:


That whoever believes

shall not perish

but have eternal life.


Help me believe.

Help us believe.


For a generation plagued by depression,

loneliness, and anxiety,

may this truth sink deep

and take residence within us.


May it become so visceral

that the body which keeps score of trauma

would instead remain

in a love much deeper —

a love that bound and broke His body

to make mine,

and ours, whole.


O this deep love of God —

may it penetrate every darkness

and break the shackles

we find ourselves bound in.


May this deep love of God,

this gospel truth,

create new freedom —

a generation of wholeness and praise.


Remind us

it was finished at the cross.

The proof: the resurrection.

Death could not hold Him,

and it will not hold us.


The same Spirit, His breath,

pursues, beckons, calls —

with every breath,

with every thought —

return.

Remain in His love.

Remain in this truth.


Ascribe to God the glory due His Name.

Ascribe to God the glory.


How deep is His love for us.


Forget not, my soul.


His love is deeper than any sin,

deeper than any trauma.

His love is the freedom

and the remedy.


Abide in this love.





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