Imagine yourself being admired for your appearance, your beautiful smile, your heavenly blue eyes and your long blond hair. Imagine you being admired and loved by every man in town. Any man would give completely everything and anything, just to get ONE chance to talk to you. And you are that specific woman. Every girl’s dream.
But behind this beautiful appearance hides something deeper, something that never will heal. You were sold to prostitution at the age of ten, your father never wanted you and you were deprived the chance of ever having children. Your father even made you a visit when you were “working”, not knowing it was you. Your soul became hard like a stone and no one was ever permitted to even try softening your heart. But deep inside yourself you are desperate to feel worthy and whole. Who or what could ever set you free?
The redeeming love coming from the cross!
Redeeming love written by Francine Rivers wants to teach us how much God loves us and that he can lift us up from the deepest pitch and place us on a steady rock. Angel, in Redeeming love, is this woman who is admired by everyone but whose soul has been damaged forever. Until she meets Michael Hosea.
Michael trusts God with his whole heart and one of his prayers has been that God one day will show him his future wife. Angel is God’s choice for him! “This one, beloved!”. Despite Michael’s doubts in God´s choice, he is determent to love and help Angel out of her misery, a task that would not be easy. Angel’s heart is frozen and Michael tries to help her in the only way he can, showing her the love of God. But for every little step Angel takes to a final bloom, she becomes more desperate to be worthy of Michael’s love and starts to see faults in herself behind every corner. Angel leaves Michael three times. The first two times Michael went to look for her and he brought her back home, but the third time God told him to let her go. “Let her go, beloved. Give her to me!”
Michael loved Angel and he showed her what true love is. But another important message with the book is that God loves us for who we are and not for all the things we do. Angel did learn to love Michael but she became dependent on him, he became her god. So the third time she left, God wanted it to be so. Michael had helped her with all his heart and soul, but now she needed to find God on her own. She had to understand that she was loved for who she is and not for what she does.
Even if you feel you have been deprived your childhood, if you feel that no one loves you for who you are or if you feel that you need to deserve love, there will always be a redeeming love from the Lord. He loves you for who you are. And even if you don’t believe in Him, don’t be afraid of love. Because love is something everyone needs!
(Ps. Angel came back! And she told Michael her real name: Sara. A name that became a promise from God, that she one day would give Michael a child!!! Ds.)
/Rebecca Q
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