08/11/2024
Good morning beautiful people! So you know this is going to be a lengthy blog LOL please read however.
I have thought or pondered these words for a couple of days now - "marked by love." What does it mean to be marked? When the phrase "marked by" is used in a sentence, it typically means that the described situation or characteristic is easily noticeable or prominent. It is a phrase that is often used to highlight a distinctive feature or quality associated with a particular thing or situation. And what are those distinguishing marks? For me, it is rejection, sorrow, and misunderstanding. At first it might seem these are mars that rendered me less perfect, attractive, or useful. At least I saw them as such. However, as my Daddy has so explicitly put it to me, these are really scars that have become symbols of Honor because of his great love for me. I have been definitely marked by or scarred by rejection, sorrows, and misunderstandings to say the least. But in My Father's eyes these are marks of Honor, because I love anyway. He taught me this several years ago- each scar brought me closer to him and my understanding of his love for me and how others should be loved. I have not mastered this and I still struggle to Love without fear. At times I must do it afraid, but I still love. The Bible tells us in Isaiah 53, speaking of Jesus, to whom will Yahweh reveal his mighty arm? He sprouted up like a tender plant before the lord, like a root in parched soil. He possessed no distinguishing beauty or outward-splendor to catch our attention, nothing special in his appearance to make us desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of deep sorrows, who was no stranger to suffering and grief... And then it goes on to say -yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him. Let me say it another way - it pleased the Lord to mark him. And Jesus was definitely marked by God's love--he so marked him because he wanted us to know without a shadow of doubt that he was demonstrating his love for us - through Jesus Who Was Willing to be marred or marked by that love - that perfect love. So next time you're hurt, rejected, or misunderstood, ponder this instead-- Jesus was marked far greater than we will ever be, and maybe those scars are mark
s of his love - scars of Honor. I love you and so does he.