I received an email from WordPress for my year in review and in looking at it; it states the most popular day for my blog was 2/19/13. The blog that day was entitled “Oh, how I love Jesus.” Now, I find that absolutely amazing that on that day me along with 387 other folk shared the same love for a Man who hung, bled and died for us. You know that kind of love that makes you love yourself when man says you’re unworthy. That kind of love that makes you feels like somebody even when the world says, statistically, you’ll never amount to anything. That kind of love that comfort you up when you feel lonely even though you’re surrounded by folk. That kind of love that rocks you to sleep when your mind is racing and you should be pacing the floor. You know that kind of love that strengthens you to walk over obstacles that should have knocked you down a long time ago, that kind that lets you know everything will be alright even when the doctor says it won’t be, that kind that picks you up when you’ve fallen too many times to count and that kind of love that’ll comfort you like momma after she is gone home. Oh, how I love Jesus; the man who stepped in for my sins, the man who was lied on for loving, drug from place to place for delivering, beaten because He blessed, cursed because He converted, hung because He healed and yet He still defeated death! Oh, how I love Jesus!
Even when I was a filthy nobody running from His anointing, too scared to step out on faith, too blind to see His light, too worldly to be worthy, too ungrateful for His grace, too messy for His mercy, too mean to hear His message, too selfish to tithe, too talkative and still not testifying, too lazy to listen, too angry to be used, too ashamed to acknowledge Him and even when I felt like I was too broken to believe, too hurt to heal, too fearful to fight, too scared to stand, too weak to walk and too damaged to be delivered; He loved me anyway. Oh, how I love Jesus! I better leave this thang alone because I feel something stirring in my spirit on the last day of 2013 but somebody needed to know, today, that Jesus loves you. Yes, he does! It doesn’t matter what his or her text said because God’s text says in Romans 5:8, “But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” It doesn’t even matter that folk say they don’t love you anymore because 1 John 4:16 says, “So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.” When it is all said and done, Jesus loves you. Now the question is how do you love Jesus?
Lakisha, the Author 