Jesus Loves You!

I stood there, before the notice board, my eyes skimming through the school calendar.

The morning was still dark and the quiet peace which only comes with early mornings such as these still reigned. One word jumped out at me, continuously.

Peperiksaan.

Yes, that foreboding word kept appearing, again and again, until all that was left of the calendar to me was the word PEPERIKSAAN, hugely printed in block letters. I could feel my heart beat;I could feel it thumping as wave upon wave of fear and worry consumed me. A string of incomprehensible thoughts ran through my mind, collided somewhere in between and all I felt a second later was enshrouding darkness and total disintegrated confusion. The dark morning was only getting darker and that peace had been tainted by a seizing panic. I had to tear myself away from the board.

Breathing unsteadily, I sat down on an orange stool in the common area (where students usually try to get homework/some studying done in the morn). In a desperate attempt to shake off the clinging panic, I closed my eyes and inhaled deeply. And it was when I opened it again that I saw a pencilbox with the most reassuring words I've seen for a long time.

Plain and simple, it said: JESUS LOVES YOU.

And suddenly, I felt the gripping worries fall away, the fear torn asunder, for I knew that amidst those terrifying thoughts, Jesus loves me. And all He has called us to do is to do our best and leave the rest to Him.

Matthew 11:28-30
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

You see, Jesus loves each and everyone of us SO UNIMAGINABLY MUCH - and that love will never fail you. And so, if worry has somehow seeped its way into your heart as it so easily does, I'd like to encourage you to take heart and to trust in Him. He will never fail you, He cares for you :)

And so, on an entirely different note together, I was browsing through YouTube the other day and I came across this AMAZING guy and I was just blown away by the extent of which he was willing to go to just to bring love into the lives of people. It absolutely inspired me to share this love that I have been blessed with. But most of all, I realised that really, love should be freely given without expecting anything in return for we have the greatest love we can find, EVER in our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.