"All that 'love and acceptance' talk is just performance—nobody actually means it."
How it sounds in your head: They hugged me on Sunday and ignored me at school. They said 'we're family' but whispered about my clothes. It's all fake. Love is just something people say, not something they do.
"The LORD has appeared of old to me, saying: 'Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.'"
-- Jeremiah 31:3Source: world and religious hypocrisy - experiencing the gap between proclaimed and practiced love.
She witnessed Christians saying the right words while doing the opposite, creating deep cynicism about whether genuine love exists at all.
Five failed marriages, living with a man, avoided by 'good' people who came to the well at different hours. Jesus went OUT OF HIS WAY to her town, asked her for water, and revealed Himself as Messiah to HER first—the outcast.
I REFUSE the lie that all love is performance. IT IS WRITTEN that I am loved with EVERLASTING love—not Sunday love, not conditional love, but EVERLASTING. God DEMONSTRATED His love with Christ's blood while I was still a sinner. IT IS WRITTEN in 1 John 4:19, 'We love Him because He first loved us.' His love is FIRST, not a response to my performance. I am Abraham's seed, and the BARAK blessing is covenant love that protected liars and deceivers. The Father's love isn't a hug on Sunday—it's a cross on Friday and an empty tomb on Sunday.
While you're still convinced all love is fake, the Father is going OUT OF HIS WAY to your town, to your well, to reveal Himself specifically to you—the one others avoid. His demonstration was thorns and nails, not just words and hugs.