He’s Smitten With You

Letting Our Love for Our Children Point us to His Love for Us

“Oh, believe me, there is plenty of room in your heart.” I remember my mom-in-law (also a mother to three) telling me when I was pregnant with our second.  We stood loading dishes into the dishwasher after a family get together, as I told her I could not imagine having this much love for now not only one, but two little people.

And, of course, she was right.  My momma heart was full with just one, but yet when our second was born it was as if rather than doubling, my love multiplied. Each child opens a new cavern in your heart  that you never knew existed, but once it is open and you travel its corridors, it is unfathomable that you lived this long unaware of it.

Each of my children holds my heart in a different way–and we communicate our love to each other in unique ways.  You know this truth, momma.  That little boy of yours has a different piece of your heart than your oldest princess–you don’t love one more, just differently and the love multiplies as they do.

What a glorious picture God is giving us mommas of His love for us.  Except in comparison to His, our love is so limited, broken, conditional, and fragile.  His love doesn’t run out or give up as the number of His children grows.  His love is multiplied; and, I think each of us holds a different piece of His heart.  Each of us communicates our love to Him in different ways, and He knows exactly how we best receive love.

Mommas, we can hardly remember what it was like to not love these little people (though, some of us remember days of going to the bathroom alone or only cleaning up our own toothpaste trail in the sink).  God does not have to try to remember a time when He didn’t love us–His love is without the boundaries of time.  He has loved you since before the foundation of the world and will keep loving you into eternity.

Some days, my kids need extra affirmation of my love for them.  Today, I needed an extra dose of the Father’s love for me.  Look at your littles, feel your heart swell, and know that love is a dim shadow of your Father’s love for you.

 

Did you need this reminder today as much as I did?  What has God done this week to show you He is smitten with you? 

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