"I saw that God began never to love mankind.."
Julian of Norwich (Ch. 53)
He never began to love us; He simply always has loved us. From before eternity even began, God was loving us. Before creation, before time, before anything at all, God was loving us! His love for us is truly everlasting, eternal, without beginning or ending, outside of time and also filling every moment in time. At every moment, we have been cherished, we have been loved. He has been adoring us, delighting in us, loving us forever with an unstoppable, unconquerable, unquenchable, unchangeable, unconditional love. He loved us before we ever did or thought a single thing to try to earn or deserve that love, so we can know for sure that we don't have to earn or deserve it. He loved us before we even existed, before there was anything done or accomplished in our lives, good or bad. This shows that His love is completely outside of any performance on our part. It simply IS. And it has always been. Nothing we do could ever stop the flow of this love to us; it is like an endless waterfall pouring over us in abundance, soaking us in tenderness and joy.
He has always been in love with His human family. He always planned and knew that He would have us for His very own children, and He brought us into existence with such joy and delight. The Trinity has dreamed about us from before time began, dreamed of the wonderful family life we would all have together. We are God's dream come true! And He could not imagine a universe without us in it. In fact He loves each and every one of us individually, personally, passionately, with all the love He has to give in the whole of creation.
The cry of the human heart is to be loved and God's answer echoes from before time and throughout all eternity: "You are wanted, cherished, loved! I have always been loving you and I always will be loving you. I adore you! You are so precious to me just as you are, yourself, as my beloved child." As long as God has been God, God has been loving us!
"We are His dream come true.."
John 1:13 (MIRROR)
A Prayer: Remind me of Your love for me!