Do You Think I Love This World?

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“Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live” (John 14:19).


My daughter, look now. Look at Me. Raise your head again.

I come for you.

What do you want to ask Me? Can I tell you the desire of your heart? I know you tire of staying in the same place. I know you are tired of looking at this world—but oh, how I love it. 

Can I tell you how much I love this world?

I love each bit of it. The cracks in the sidewalk, the pebbles mixed in desert sand. This is the landscape through which I walk. I walk where I want you to see. I walk through villages and down crowded streets. I sit at wells and wait and I walk up mountains and sit on hills next to quiet seas.

I see beneath the facades, the walls my children build. I enter in with permission, and I long to make my home. I keep walking and knocking and waiting and listening. I know my home. I know my Father. I am Spirit who moves in you and wants to stay. And when you let Me in, and I stay, I remove the walls. I let you see beyond this world to what exists in it to save it. 

I have come to save the world, and there are children who still do not know. They don’t know there is a dream beyond food for their stomachs and a place to lay their head when they tire. 

I am Home without walls. 

I am Home so you can rest here and see more of the things I see. Someday you will understand. You will see more. I give you glimpses, and I let your heart imagine the possibilities of true freedom, true love, true joy, true rescue. Oh, the day I come again! But you don’t have to wait to receive my Spirit. And when you receive it, I equip you to paint the landscapes anew for children who don’t yet know Me in their hearts. 

Oh, daughter, I love the world. 

I love these children. I love you. I come to rescue. I come to save. I come to love. I come to liberate children who are trapped and see no way of escape.

I come.

Open your heart.

I come.

Look in my eyes.

I come.

I am all you need, and I go ahead.

Let Me give you new eyes, a new heart—fresh courage and faith so my loved ones, the world, who don’t yet see Me, can see Me in you. 

Yes, let them see Me in you. 

And I will come to them, and they will know they are rescued and not forgotten, too.


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My hope and prayer is that, through each of these twice-weekly Loop emails, you’ve been able to encounter God in a personal, life-giving way. But I also know that words on a computer (or smartphone) screen can only take us so far. There’s so much more to experience and uncover when we connect with God alongside other sisters who love Him, too. That’s why I created the “Contemplative Encounters” space in Loop Collective, a place where women can connect and share what God has placed within them. Will you come? Will you encounter the King with us? I’d love to see you there…

It never stops being incredible in my mind that God created us so differently. My gifts are different from yours, and yours from mine. I cannot fulfill the role God designed you to fill, and you can’t fulfill mine. We need each other—each one of us—as we rely on Holy Spirit’s power. I love the reason Ephesians 4:12-13 give us for our diverse gifts: “... to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ” (ESV). If you’re not sure what your spiritual gifts are yet, I encourage you to consider taking this free assessment, designed from Bible-based research. Then, ask God what steps He would have you take next.

I pray I never underestimate the power of everyday faithfulness. And I pray that, every day, no matter how weak I feel, my heart would still choose Jesus. If that’s your prayer, too, then I think you’ll enjoy this conversation between Jennie Allen and Matt Chandler about revival, repentance, the slow yet steady pace of our spiritual growth, and more…

One more thing before I go: “Every Good Gift,” Jason Upton: (Video | Spotify)

Your sister in Christ,


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