• Home
  • Shop
  • Cindi’s Speaking
    • Cindi’s Event Schedule
    • Book Cindi for Your Event
    • Cindi’s Speaking Topics
    • What Cindi Believes
    • Endorsements
  • Coaching Services
    • Coaching Credentials / Endorsements
    • Fees For Coaching/Consulting Service
    • Do We Fit?
    • Cindi’s Coaching/Consulting Options
  • Blog
  • Videos
  • Encouragement
    • Articles of Encouragement
    • Encouragement for Couples
  • About Cindi
  • Contact
Type and hit ENTER
  • Home
  • Shop
  • Cindi’s Speaking
    • Cindi’s Event Schedule
    • Book Cindi for Your Event
    • Cindi’s Speaking Topics
    • What Cindi Believes
    • Endorsements
  • Coaching Services
    • Coaching Credentials / Endorsements
    • Fees For Coaching/Consulting Service
    • Do We Fit?
    • Cindi’s Coaching/Consulting Options
  • Blog
  • Videos
  • Encouragement
    • Articles of Encouragement
    • Encouragement for Couples
  • About Cindi
  • Contact
GET CONNECTED
retina-image
cart
  • Home
  • Shop
  • Cindi’s Speaking
    • Cindi’s Event Schedule
    • Book Cindi for Your Event
    • Cindi’s Speaking Topics
    • What Cindi Believes
    • Endorsements
  • Coaching Services
    • Coaching Credentials / Endorsements
    • Fees For Coaching/Consulting Service
    • Do We Fit?
    • Cindi’s Coaching/Consulting Options
  • Blog
  • Videos
  • Encouragement
    • Articles of Encouragement
    • Encouragement for Couples
  • About Cindi
  • Contact
  • 0 Items : $0.00cart
You are Loved at Christmas and Always
Share
overwhelmingly loved
Christmas

You are Loved at Christmas and Always

December 21, 2021
-
Posted by Cindi

On Sunday, we sang a song at church about the “overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God.”

Have you thought about that lately? Have you thought about that in light of why we celebrate Christmas?

God’s overwhelming love for us caused Him to send His only Son to this earth as a helpless, vulnerable baby so we would know that He could relate to all we experience from birth through adulthood. So we would have the confidence that He is a credible High Priest who can understand our weaknesses when we come to Him with our sufferings, temptations, desires, and disappointments (Hebrews 4:15-16). He showed us, through His life on earth that it IS possible to live fully surrendered to God in spite of what life throws us. In Jesus we have not only an example, but a Conqueror who did what we never could — lived a sinless life and paid the ransom for our sins. That is overwhelming love.

God’s never-ending love kept Jesus on the course and the cross in spite of being mocked, rejected, tortured, and executed for OUR sins, not His. That never-ending love continues to pursue us, heal us, and draw us toward Him in relationship (Jeremiah 31:3).

God’s reckless love risked it all when He sent His Son to this earth knowing most of the world would reject Him. Yet He leaves the 99 to come after the one lost sheep — and that lost sheep at one time was you and me. Reckless love continues to love regardless of the risk, ridicule, rejection, or suffering that is involved. Can you and I love Him that way? Can we love others that way?

Oh how wonderful, this overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God that risked everything to love us. That is what Christmas is. God coming for us, pursuing us, risking everything for us. Joy to the world, the Lord has come!

Will you embrace His overwhelming love this Christmas? Will you celebrate His never-ending love no matter who you are around? Will you return His reckless love, and give it to others as well? That is what Christmas is all about: Embracing, celebrating and reciprocating the Love that came for us.

What is one thing about His love that YOU will be celebrating this Christmas? I’d love to hear it in the comment section below so I can celebrate alongside you. Merry Christmas, my friend. You are much loved.

December 21, 2021
12 Comments
Cindi
Cindi McMenamin is an award-winning author and national speaker who helps women find strength for the soul. She has nearly 35 years experience ministering to women and inspiring them to let God meet their emotional needs, grow stronger through their alone times, and pursue their dreams with boldness.
← PREVIOUS POST
Four Reasons to Sing in 2022
NEXT POST →
How to Stay Faithful When You Feel God Isn't

12 Comments

on You are Loved at Christmas and Always.
  1. Joni Doyle
    December 21, 2021 @ 11:30 am
    -
    Reply

    I am grateful for the life of love Jesus gives us: compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience… forgiveness and love… (Col 3:12-14). Abundant life!

    • Cindi
      December 21, 2021 @ 2:44 pm
      -
      Reply

      Thanks, Joni. Merry Christmas to you as you embrace and celebrate His wondrous love.

  2. Merlene
    December 21, 2021 @ 12:54 pm
    -
    Reply

    Cindi,
    Thank you for those beautiful words. Perfect for such a time as this.
    I would like your permission to share some of this with my friends on Christmas Eve.
    Thank you for your willingness to listen to God’s voice and share.
    Merry Christmas.

    • Cindi
      December 21, 2021 @ 2:43 pm
      -
      Reply

      Hi Merlene,
      Merry Christmas to you, too. There is a forward and share function on my email that allows you to send it on to your friends.Thanks for asking.

      Cindi

  3. Katrina Procek
    December 21, 2021 @ 2:53 pm
    -
    Reply

    Dear Cindi

    What a challenging but productive year it has been to grow in Christ.

    I have a profound appreciation of our Lord and this Christmas I am in full bloom. Liking myself , sharing my new chapters of a book I am writing and loving others with a genuine but bold witness for Jesus. I do have material gifts to give but the the love of Christ is the best gift to give and that in itself is enough for me. In the Covid season people are wanting more and being more vulnerable and open to the gospel more than ever before in my sixteen years of being a Christian. What a joy to share Jesus.

    • Cindi
      December 21, 2021 @ 3:00 pm
      -
      Reply

      Katrina, What a joy to hear of your love of sharing Jesus with others! Have a blessed Christmas.

  4. Trish
    December 21, 2021 @ 4:56 pm
    -
    Reply

    Thank U for the great reminder of His Reckless Love for Each One of Us Personally! The powerful truth of His unconditional Love, regardless of anything done, has healed and freed me!
    I now live and dwell in His Love daily, sharing that simple gospel message to others! I believe anything needed can be found in seeking His Very Personal Reckless Love!

    • Cindi
      December 24, 2021 @ 8:29 am
      -
      Reply

      Thank you, Trish, for sharing your story with us and reaffirming that His unconditional love for us can transform our lives if we would only embrace it and live like we believe it. Merry Christmas and a blessed 2022 to you.

  5. Sherry
    December 22, 2021 @ 5:39 am
    -
    Reply

    Merry Christmas Cindi!

    • Cindi
      December 24, 2021 @ 8:27 am
      -
      Reply

      Merry Christmas, Sherry. Hope you will have many more opportunities to bless others with your writing in this coming year. 🙂

  6. Ramona Klassen
    December 23, 2021 @ 2:09 am
    -
    Reply

    Cindi, remember how we met via emails? I am once again reading your book ” Letting God Meet Your Emotionsl Needs.” I love this book as you can tell. God’s love has become abundantly clear lately. When I put Him first He shows me His love even in the smallest things. I depend on His love more now during the times we are in and the peace is just an extra blessing.
    God bless you and Merry Christmas to you and your family.
    Ramona Klassen

    • Cindi
      December 24, 2021 @ 8:26 am
      -
      Reply

      Ramona, It’s always good to hear from you. I am thrilled that you are re-reading “Letting God Meet Your Emotional Needs.” No better truth to surround yourself with, especially at this time of year, than His unconditional, ever-pursuing love of you. Merry Christmas, my friend.

Leave a Comment

Your feedback is valuable for us. Your email will not be published.
Cancel Reply

Please wait...
Submit Comment

Categories
Also Find Cindi on:

Cindi’s Books Also Available On:
kindlenook
Try These Short, Instant Prayers to Stop Fear & An Try These Short, Instant Prayers to Stop Fear & Anxiety -- In the heat of the moment, here are some "missile" prayers you can send up immediately: https://strengthforthesoul.com/try-these-short-instant-prayers-to-stop-negativity-or-anxiety/
3 Ways to Pray Against Negative Thoughts - Are neg 3 Ways to Pray Against Negative Thoughts - Are negative thoughts sabotaging your day by dictating to you what to fear and how to feel? Don’t let them have their way with you anymore! https://strengthforthesoul.com/3-ways-to-pray-against-negative-thoughts/
A Love that Never Disappoints: There's only One w A Love that Never Disappoints: 
There's only One who can love you perfectly and never let you down. Here are 26 phrases the Perfect Lover will never say to us. 
https://strengthforthesoul.com/a-love-that-never-disappoints/
Try this for a form of self-therapy-- Improve your Try this for a form of self-therapy-- Improve your mental, emotional, and spiritual health by journaling this year.  https://strengthforthesoul.com/try-this-for-a-form-of-self-therapy/
Stay Strong and Stress Free in 2023: https://stren Stay Strong and Stress Free in 2023: https://strengthforthesoul.com/stay-strong-not-stressed-in-2023/
Feeling Tired? Get Your God-Motivation Today! If Feeling Tired? Get Your God-Motivation Today!  If you're struggling with motivation this time of year, this hint from God's Word will help...
https://strengthforthesoul.com/feeling-tired-get-your-god-motivation-today/
I'm so thankful for you, my reader, and want you t I'm so thankful for you, my reader, and want you to  be the first to know -- 4 of my titles are at their lowest cost ever! https://strengthforthesoul.com/shop/
4 More Ways to Not Embarrass Your Adult Child: I 4 More Ways to Not Embarrass Your Adult Child: 
 If they'll be around your Thanksgiving table, here's how to not be annoying over the holidays. :) 
https://strengthforthesoul.com/4-more-ways-to-not-embarrass-your-adult-child/
How to Keep from Embarrassing Your Grown Child - I How to Keep from Embarrassing Your Grown Child - It happens but it doesn't have to. Be an inspiration, not an irritation, to your grown child by keeping these 4 things in mind....
https://strengthforthesoul.com/4-ways-to-keep-from-embarrassing-your-grown-child/
How to Keep it Together While the World Falls Apar How to Keep it Together While the World Falls Apart: 
When gas prices soar sky high and this country's morality and values sink to an all-time low, here's how to keep your focus and let your light shine: 
https://strengthforthesoul.com/how-to-keep-it-together-while-this-world-falls-apart/
4 Ways to Keep Jesus on the Throne of Your Life - 4 Ways to Keep Jesus on the Throne of Your Life - Has impatience, an addiction, or another person or their opinion become more important to you than Jesus? Here's how to reverse that: 
https://strengthforthesoul.com/4-ways-to-keep-jesus-on-the-throne-of-your-life/
3 Ways to Eliminate the 'Golden Calf' in Your Life 3 Ways to Eliminate the 'Golden Calf' in Your Life - Here's how to identify--and get rid of -- what you might tend to worship instead of the Living God: 
https://strengthforthesoul.com/3-ways-to-eliminate-the-golden-calf-in-your-life/
Follow me on Instagram

SIGN UP FOR CINDI'S BLOG

  • ABOUT CINDI
  • PRIVACY POLICY

Copyright Strength for the Soul, 2018

You are Loved at Christmas and Always | Strength for the Soul