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Subject: [thefamilyoffaith] "Beautiful But Broken" - Ron Hutchcraft
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Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - A Word With You


            Beautiful But Broken 
            Monday, April 25, 2012

            Well, it's another sad story from the "entertainment capital
of the world." There's a lot of it behind all that Hollywood hype.

            The sadness behind the stardom hit me again when I read about
something that happened to a woman who at times, has been the highest paid
actress in Hollywood. She's been married to two of Hollywood's biggest
actors; she's been a cover girl on national magazines. But recently she was
the subject of a friend's urgent 911 call. She was rushed to the hospital
for her reaction to the dangerous drugs she was using.

            Her own words in a recent interview reveal the hurting heart
behind the glamour. "What scares me is that I'm going to ultimately find
out at the end of my life that I'm really not loveable; that I'm not worthy
of being loved. That there's something fundamentally wrong with me." And
sadly, a lot of us non-celebrity types hear those words and think, "I know
the feeling."

            I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today
about "Beautiful But Broken."

            We've all had disappointing relationships; people who've made
us feel like we weren't "worth loving." Experiences that have caused us to
conclude that there's "something wrong with me." We know the ugliness
behind our smiling facade. I know all too well the things about me that are
anything but loveable.

            But we're made to be loved. Literally, made by God to be
loved. Loved by Him. Love with two words attached that give our lonely
hearts a safe harbor - unconditional, and unloseable.

            God doesn't care how unloveable we are. His love isn't "I
love you if..." or "I love you because..." It's just, "I love you." His
love for me is all about Him and nothing about me. How do I know? Because
He says in His Book, "God showed His great love for us by sending Christ to
die for us while we were yet sinners." That's our word for today from the
Word of God, Romans 5:8.

            God initiated the greatest act of love in the history of this
planet when He sent His Son to die an unspeakable death on a cross. Not
because I was so loveable, but because I was so lost. I'm a rebel against
God. I defy the One who runs the universe by refusing to let Him run me.
According to the Bible, we're all rebels, pushing God to the margins,
dissing His laws, acting like we're God, and breaking the heart of God.

            But still He loves us. He offered up His Son to do the dying
for my rebellion. As the Bible says, "God so loved the world that He gave
His one and only Son..." (John 3:16). Love without conditions; love that
has nothing to do with your performance or your loveableness. It's a love
like no other.

            And since it's all about Him and not about you or me, it's
unloseable love. If God was ever going to turn His back on me, it would
have been when His Son was hanging on that cross. But He turned His back on
His Son, who was carrying our sin, so He would never have to turn His back
on us. So, in the Bible's words, "nothing in all creation will be able to
separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord"
(Romans 8:39).

            His is the only love in the world that will never disappoint
you, never divorce you, never die on you. It is a love that you can finally
begin to experience for yourself beginning this very day if you will
respond to that love and say, "Jesus, nobody loves me like You do. You died
on a cross for me. You're powerful enough to walk out of Your grave and
into my life, and I want You to do that today. I'm Yours starting today."

            At our website I've tried to lay out there as simply and
briefly as I can how to be sure you know Jesus for yourself. Let me urge
you to go there; it's YoursForLife.net.

            I think of the mistakes we make and the hurt we experience
looking for this love anywhere else. The little kids singing their little
church song, they "get" it: "Jesus loves me, this I know." You know that
when you finally open your heart to His love. And your lifetime search for
love ends in His welcoming arms.
           
     
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