Love at First Sight

“The look of Love is on her face, a look that time can’t erase.”  Song lyrics. . .Heart and soul lyrics. ‘Love at first sight’ lyrics.  Lyrics written in the heart of God before time existed; but arriving in time just as He had authored.   The treasure hunting human heart has found gold.  “I’m rich, I’m rich.  I’ll never be poor again.”

A couple of weeks ago, I received a call from a couple who were in deep distress.  When they arrived and sat down on the couch in the office, the mom pulled an envelope out of her purse and handed it to me. She asked me to read it.  It was a letter from their son, who is in his middle twenties.  As I read the letter, his thoughts and feelings captured my heart and Love covered him like a pure, white wool blanket, knit in the very Good Moment by the Shepherd of the sheep.  “Love covers. . .everything.“  He had carefully, honestly, bravely and with extraordinary compassion and sensitivity towards his parents, shared with them that he was gay.

Both mom and dad were emotional as they expressed their own thoughts and feelings about their son’s disclosure.  “I Love him with my whole heart and soul,” they both said.  He is the apple of their eye.  When he was born, they loved him at first sight and every continuous sight from that moment on.  A golden nugget, a diamond in the rough, a priceless pearl from the ocean. A blessing from God.

The grief that they felt was mostly because their son was almost bleeding to death.  His guilt and self-condemnation, his fears of disappointing his family and friends, the torture he had been going through, “living a lie” as he put it, trying to be what everyone wanted him to be…made him weak from the blood loss. . .and he’s never felt like a whole person.

       “Behold. a woman who was diseased with an issue of blood for twelve years came behind Him and touched His garment.  For she had said within herself, ‘If I may but just touch His garment, I shall be Whole.’  But Jesus turned around and when He saw her (with the Look of Love) He said, ‘Daughter, be of good comfort; thy Faith which I have given to you has made you Whole.  And the woman was Made Whole from that moment on.”  

She had found the Gold of God.  .  .His Son.  It was Love at first sight.  Her heart was full of Joy. The Faith that she possessed in the Moment,  was a gift from Him to enable her to see Jesus as the Treasure from Heaven, Who Loved her with His Whole heart and Soul with a Divine Love.  .  .the only Love that makes the bleeding sheep Whole.  Now their Hope rests in His Love that covers them with unconditional acceptance, utter and total forgiveness and promises to never leave them or forsake them.  .  .and to make all things that comprise their life, work together for their good.

He Touches their soul to Enable them to See Him and touch Him. In the Gospel story of the woman with the bleeding issue, when she ‘touched’ His garment the word touched in the original Greek language that it was written in, means: “to attach oneself to, to touch in many implied relations.”   Whenever Christ touched the sick, the lame, the blind, the deaf, the paralyzed and the lepers.  .  .all of the different kind of sinners in life.  .  . the same definition, the same Greek word is used.  He Attaches Himself first and becomes the Source and Resource for all of their needs.

When each bleeding lamb needs Faith, He Touches them.  When they need Love, He Touches them.  When they need Power, He touches them.  When they need a Sound Mind, He touches them.  When they need to touch Him, He Touches them and Moves them to touch Him. He Makes them Move and they Love Him with their Whole Heart and Soul for He has Become their Whole Heart and Soul.  They are Whole and Complete in their Union with Him and wear the banner of His Love over their Heart.

       “My God will liberally Supply your every bleeding need according to His Riches, His Gold and Silver, His Pearl of Great Price, Who is His Son.   .   .I have Loved you with an Eternal Love.  Therefore, with Loving-kindness I will Touch you and Draw you to Myself.”

Fruit from the Vine Who is Attached Eternally to the branches. . .the branches attached Eternally to the Vine. . .bearing Fruit when they are Touched in time:  Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faith, Power and a Whole Heart and Soul.  All is yours from the Look of Love that is on His Face.

Freely Given.    Freely Received.      Free, Love.