This concept of unconditional love is new to me. I thought I had it down, but I still don’t. Recently, God confronted me with this and just knocked me over with his love.

So Lord, You’re telling me I constantly hurt you and you still love me? I love other things, and you still love me. I take out the fact that I don’t have a valentine on you, but you still love me. God, why are you so good to me? I treat you like crap, and you are still there teaching me things. You are taking me places I didn’t want to go, and fixing it with me kicking and screaming to the point that I just have to breakdown and realize your love and my mistakes.

God, thank you for loving us so much that you want to work on us, that you want us to want you. You want us to have a fire for you that people see and can touch and can feel your presence. Lord, thank you for wanting to change me, mold me, and make me into the man of God that looks more and more like you. It’s not that I have never seen your love. It’s that I have never noticed enough to realize your unconditional love has been there all the time. I neglected your love, and I know others are doing the same, Lord. I pray for them and myself. Help us grow, Lord, in the unconditional love that can only be described as amazing. Lord, help us to love people like you love us. Thank you, Lord, for your mercy, hope, and true love.

Happy Valentine’s Day, God.