THE VOICE BEFORE THE BEGINNING
Before I formed you
I knew you ~
Before breath entered your lungs
before your eyes opened to the earth
before anyone called your name
I had already spoken you within My heart ~
Not later.
Not after you proved yourself.
Before ~
Before the struggle.
Before the wandering.
Before the fear.
Before the fire.
Before the questions hidden in the night ~
I knew you.
And what I knew
I called.
And what I called
I set apart ~
Not because you understood
but because I already saw
the finished picture ~
You fear what you carry
because you only see yourself ~
But I do not begin
with your limitation.
I begin
with My love ~
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you.”
— Jeremiah 1:5
I knew you ~
Not observed.
Not discovered.
Known.
Loved before formed.
Chosen before sent.
Beloved before crowned ~
And My love is not fragile.
It is not overcome
by your weakness.
It is not frightened
by your failure.
It is not undone
by your wandering ~
Because what I love
I do not abandon.
And there is nothing
you could ever bring before Me
that My mercy cannot wash clean ~
No darkness deeper than My light.
No wound greater than My healing.
No stain stronger than My blood ~
Because My love does not merely overlook.
My love restores.
My love renews.
My love makes all things new ~
This is why I gave you communion ~
So you would remember
that My body was broken
to bring you back into union ~
That My blood still speaks
mercy
life
remembrance
belonging ~
And this is why
I established baptism ~
So the old would no longer define you.
So what once held you
would lose its name over you ~
Buried with Me.
Raised with Me.
Hidden within My life ~
Not striving to become new.
Awakening
to what My love already made new ~
And when you come to Me
you do not come before rejection.
You come before Love ~
And My love overshadows
overrides
and overtakes
everything that once tried to define you ~
Fear does not define you.
Failure does not define you.
Your past does not define you ~
My love does.
And what My love holds
cannot be stolen from My hand ~
Trust Me—
you cannot surprise Me.
What feels unfinished to you
has never been outside My knowing ~
Even now
I AM moving through places
you thought were beyond redemption ~
Because I did not create you
for emptiness.
I created you
for habitation ~
And what I inhabit
I fill.
And what I fill
I breathe through ~
And what I have placed within you
is not small.
It is not confined
to what you have known ~
Because My life within you
does not end
where your understanding ends ~
It flows.
It expands.
It reveals ~
So do not fear the unfolding.
I already see
what you cannot yet understand ~
~ THIS IS GRACE ~
This is My love for you ~
Eternal.
Flowing.
Everlasting ~
My lovingkindness
surrounding you
carrying you
remaining with you
forever ~
