I AM Passionately Loved

What makes....Not only makes but drives, not just drives but entices someone to stay pure in todays world?  Is it a religious standard?  A strict discipline?  Some sort of holy karma?  Is it merely tradition passed down? Rules...regulations...what is it that would make someone desire God over worldly pleasure?  And I don't mean god, the one you pray to when you're scared, or feeling guilty, or visit once a year on Easter or the one before 'damn it', or after 'oh my'.  He's not some illusive spirit, or a silent sky, or ink printed in a Bible.  I'm talking about the God who is real and alive, and not just around you but who lives within you.  I am talking about the God of the Bible, Jesus.  The man who loves you, yes loves you with a real,powerful, passionate, and even tangible love.  It's this kind of love that is strong enough to lure someone away from sin.  Just the very thought of this kind of love is more tempting than any substitute this world could offer me.  I'd rather find out what happens at the end of this road than any other, which I'm positive all end up in the same place...death.  There is only one way that leads to life and thank God it's paved with the love of God!  If God could write you a letter, He might write something along these lines, but far more beautiful and articulate I'm sure....

My Beloved,

            My love is the most simple love, yet you make it so complex.  You often twist it and try to place yourself out of reach, like you don't deserve My love.  But it is not only available to you, it is actively chasing you down as we speak.  Accepting and coming to the understanding of  My love is all you need to be whole and complete.  Out of My love I made you, formed you with a little dust and a little rain.  I breathed My life inside of you.  It took love to create you.  I loved you before I had any idea of who you were.  Even before I knew you, I earnestly awaited your existence.  When I finally met you, I showered my love upon you with a promise, "I will never leave you nor forsake you.  I love you with an everlasting love, and I loved you before you first loved me."  I nicknamed you 'My Beloved', and from day one you became the apple of My Eye.  No matter what this world teaches you about Me, My love will dispel every lie.  My love will always reveal the truth.  My love is bigger than any mistake you will ever make and I will hide and cover you under My blanket of love and grace.  You can mock Me, laugh at Me, turn away and renounce Me , but I will never go back on my promises.  My love will chase you.  I will still love you with an everlasting love! If I could explain how long, how wide , how deep My love goes you would have already died and met Me in person, because My love will outlast eternity.  My love began before I invented time, and it will outlast this Earth and even a new heaven and a new Earth.  Count the stars; just hold one handful of sand in your palm and remember each sparkle, each grain is just one expression of My love.  I love every unique part of you.  I love your heart, your mind your soul and your spirit.  I love your complexities, simplicities, idiosyncrasies.  I love you so much that I gave, I made, I repaid.  Gave my son, made your heart, repaid your enemies.  I love you like no one on earth can love you.  In Me is so much love that I had to create humanity in order to love someone, for without you, who would I love?  Receive My love and I will wake you everyday, speak to you, comfort you, keep and protect you.  I have saved you, remade you, prayed for you all because of one element: My everlasting, all sustaining love!  I am in love with you, don't miss it.  All of my creation testifies of My love for you.  Open your eyes.  I am all around you confessing My love for you; writing my love upon your heart.  Did you not know that I am passionately in love with you?  You have My heart completely!

love 

Jesus