JESUS LOVES ME TOO

“The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.”

Jeremiah 31:3 KJV

When I was in school, some of the students called me fat and told me I was ugly and two of them even told me I didn’t have a right to live.  After you hear these negative things so many times, you begin to believe it.  I really believed I didn’t have a right to live and I tried to take my life three times.

As a result to being raped and beaten, I hated everyone and I was afraid of everyone and everything.  I thought I should commit suicide but I really didn’t want to do it so I checked myself into a mental hospital.  I crawled underneath the bed because I was so afraid of everyone and everything.

One glorious day, our precious Saviour put His arms of unconditional love around me and lifted me up from under that bed.  He said “I love you, Joanne.  I won’t let anyone hurt you again and I will never leave you.”  Jesus has kept His promises to me.  He never leaves me, not even for one minute.

I know that Jesus loves every person in the world but when I finally grasped in my heart that the Saviour of the world loves me too, I can’t begin to put into words the joy that flooded my heart.  Allow it to go from head knowledge to heart knowledge that Jesus loves you too and He loves you unconditionally.

Joanne Lowe

April 22, 2017