“I love you, and when I can’t seem to understand anything that’s happening right now, help me to still express my love for you because you’re still good. Thank you for standing with me in the storm. Thank you for always encouraging my faith when I’m growing weary. Thank you for always believing in me. You’re the reason I’m still here. You’re the reason why I have life. You’re the reason why I’ll still keep going when it’s the hardest to. Continue to change my perspective in what I’m waiting and believing you for, and help me to never forget what you said. Teach me to trust in you deeper. Teach me to walk with you step by step, never to get ahead of you.
I love you because you’re the only one that gets me, you understand all there is to know about me and still have chosen me for such a time as this. What can I do for you? How can I better represent you? I want to take myself out of the equation for a moment, because the more I continue to focus on myself and my circumstances, I’m missing the point of your delighting in your beauty.
Jesus, you’re beautiful. You’re the greatest best friend and I know you know what’s best for me. So why can’t my heart be at ease? Why do I always double check with what I know you’ll do for me, as if you’ve forgotten? You don’t forget anything. You hear every prayer. You collect all of my tears. You pray earnestly for me. I matter so much to you. So what better way than to express my love back. Sometimes, I can’t find the words to say, and most times I press into expressing my love when I don’t feel like it because you’re worth it. Forever you reign. Forever you’re the friend that I can always count on. Thank you for everything you’ve done and will continue to do for me.”
Love,
Desjané
Now it’s your turn. Don’t overthink. Pour out your heart to Jesus.
Sometimes we can put a formula in our expression for Jesus, but he never asked it to be so routined, he just wants pure honesty from the heart. He knows what you daily go through, and still he is worthy of such love expression.
I know you’re thinking most about your circumstances, brokenness, and anything else that has kept you from praising Jesus even though, but I believe writing love letters to Jesus will connect our heart to his on a deeper level and I believe that it is within your letters to him, that whatever you felt was left out and empty, Jesus can refill. He will show up for you every time.
For me, I have such an imagination that’s broad. It’s a blessing and sometimes can be a curse. But I had to learn how to surrender my imagination to Jesus, because when I do, I see myself sitting with him, and him wrapping his arm around me in the midst of my brokenness, confusion, and needing his strength. I see us laughing and talking. I see us enjoying each other’s company. Because he put that image there, and that’s what inspired me to start writing love letters to him because he reads them and I imagine him reading them.
Jesus loves you where you are. He didn’t ask you to set a date where you show up perfect.
He didn’t ask you to overthink what you write in your letter to him. He just loves you on how you express yourself to him. He just wants to hear your voice and poetic ways that’s all directed to him.
Let us not allow what we go through to interfere with your intimacy with Jesus. By faith, write that letter to Jesus anyway.
We all have moments of not wanting to be real with Jesus, because some days I’m just tired. I’m annoyed. I’m not in the mood. I respond out of my emotions. I don’t feel like being bothered or even saying Thank you to Jesus sometimes because ultimately it was because of something that just didn’t happen the way I wanted it to or because my circumstances got my attention more than Jesus. There are a lot of things that are happening that suck and hard to even see a way through. But when I press to still love on Jesus, I know that he’ll see me through. I know that he’ll encourage me. I know that he’ll give me wisdom because he’s always been there.
So go write that letter to Jesus, sit quietly, listen for his voice, and enjoy it. If it’s going to be new for you, don’t stress or rely on the feelings of “I don’t feel anything yet” because those feelings can eventually discourage you, but also remember that those feelings are just feelings. So that means your feelings change every time. Focus in on how Jesus will meet you. Get creative with it. And I guarantee you that you’ll get use to how you write to him and spend time.
When you’re sad, write to Jesus. When you’re mad, write to Jesus. When you’re happy, write to Jesus. Whatever state you’re in, always remember that Jesus can handle it. He just wants to hear from you. Write on love.
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