Love never hurts

Some are fine, while some left me a little aching and sad inside.

Some are full of praises, while some hurt and sting.

It's okay, You said.

The next one, I can choose to look at You.

Surrendering them into Your hands.

Each one of them.



Never about the perfect response, but always me and You.

Leaning into Your presence.

Breathing out my fears and breathing in You.

If I look up, will I see You?

You are close to the broken hearted.

Renewing and restoring, for this is who You are.



Fighting battles.

Winning and losing.

Perhaps, this time round, I can afford to lose.

For some battles are not meant to be won.

Just so for more of Your plan to be revealed.

Or perhaps, this is a losing battle from the start.

Just so for me to see that true Victory only comes from You.



In the midst of battles and moments,

Heart, be strong and Lord, be here.

Choosing You again right now at this moment.

Should my heart falter again, I know it is okay too.

For You are still seated on Your throne.

Into Your arms, You lead us.

Step by step, into Your inner courts.

A place where love abounds and when all is stripped away.


A place without Your presence is more terrifying that the darkest forest and the deepest sea.


All around, You are doing a new thing.


You are putting praise on my lips though I am still not fully aware.


My feet will dance upon disappointment.

My lips will sing through heartbreaks.

My hands will be lifted up over uncertainties.

My head will bow in despair moments and my heart will forever rejoice in the truth that my Savior lives and He has set me free.




Is this how u felt Lord? Exactly what I am going through right now..
I always tell others, and believed it for myself that to love is to be vulnerable.
To love unconditionally and not expecting rewards.
To love like Jesus that Him despite giving us his all, was despised and being an object of ridicule, insulted and betrayed. Yet, he still loves.
However, when it is happening to me once again. Ouch, it really hurts so much.

To love with your all, only to be cased aside and regarded as nothing.

Was this what You had felt? Disowned by peter 3 times, and betrayed by Judas, your disciples who have seen you through your ministry, the ones who walked side by side with You, the one whom you've loved so deeply and believed in..
Was this what You had felt? putting on the crown of thorns, spitted at, misunderstood, whipped and humiliated.
It wasn't merely a physical excruciating pain on the cross, the emotional heartache of abandonment and being forsaken. What is more terrible than dying and death is to live without His presence, to be forsaken by Him.

It truly hurts when you choose to love. I know I will bound to get hurt.
Don't get me wrong. The world says "Love hurts.", but the truth is, love never hurts.
Love is beautiful. Love is exactly what the world needs.
Love is what gave us the privilege to be in His presence. Love is why He came.
Love is what makes a way. Love is what drove Him to the cross. Love is what drove out fear, and heal a broken heart. Love is what the world needs.


It’s not love that hurt. It’s the loss of love or the fear of losing it that hurts. It is sin that leads to imperfect love, where people face the consequences of it.. It is abandonment, forsakenment, fear. idolatry, addiction, possessiveness and indifference that hurts. Love is often drowned out easily by attachment, lust and fear.

Instead, Love is all selflessness. It’s the opposite of need and attachment. To an individual it is allowing and letting go, rather than grasping, which is why God has never forced us to love Him back and granted us free will, because love must have space, and force is what crowds it out. Love is powerful but it isn't forceful.
He definitely yearns for reciprocity, but He never force, and neither does He withhold His love from people who will never return it..

Your love is subtle, silent and delicate, it isn't shown through manifestations or even climatic signs..

Love by biblical definition is selfless, not self-seeking, so yes, unconditional love asks for nothing in return; it is truly unconditional.

You told me it is okay to grief, normal to felt hurt and pain. I'm merely human. But I have to run back to You, let you love me again, and in Your love can I choose to submit and go on, choosing love all the time. Choosing vulnerability even when it's tough.

Am i able to do so like You do Lord? Having such a resilience to love, going about serving with a soft heart that allows people in at times only to be trampled on, and cased aside.. If one is to truly love another, I must be prepared to have my heart broken and nailed to the cross. 

Lord, let me be weak but yet strong in You, gentle in spirit but bold for You, vulnerable but yet courageous.

Lord, make me more like you.. More of You, and less of myself.
teach me how to love again like You do..

Sincerely,
Your child