Live Loved

 My prayer for you is simple and deep. Live loved. Not try to be loved. Not work for love. Not prove yourself worthy of love. Just live loved.

When you truly live loved, everything changes. Unworthiness loses its voice. Fear no longer controls your decisions. Shame stops defining your identity. Condemnation no longer follows you around. Why? Because love drives out fear (1 John 4:18). And the love we live in is not fragile. It is anchored in the finished work of Jesus Christ.

For most of my life, I wanted a relationship with my biological father. I didn’t want anything complicated. I just wanted to be loved. I wanted to be seen. I wanted to feel chosen. That longing followed me into adulthood, into relationships, into decisions, into places I never should have been. I was searching for love everywhere except where it had been waiting for me all along.

Then I encountered my heavenly Father.

Scripture says He is a father to the fatherless and a defender of widows (Psalm 68:5). That verse stopped being poetry to me and became personal. God didn’t just offer me forgiveness. He offered me Himself. Not as a distant God, but as a present Father. A Father who stays. A Father who provides. A Father who loves without conditions.

And when I finally believed that I was truly loved by Him, something shifted inside of me. I stopped settling for less than His best. Not because I became better, but because I finally understood who I belonged to. Sons and daughters don’t beg for crumbs. They live from inheritance (Romans 8:15–17).

Living loved does not mean life becomes perfect. It means your identity becomes secure. It means you no longer make choices out of lack, desperation, or fear. You stop striving to be enough because you realize Jesus already is enough (Colossians 2:10). You stop trying to earn approval because you already have it (Ephesians 1:6).

And the most beautiful part of all of this is that you don’t have to earn it. You don’t have to clean yourself up. You don’t have to prove you’re worthy. You just receive it. “We love because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19). Grace is not a reward. It is a gift (Ephesians 2:8–9).

This is the heart of our Father. He is not withholding. He is not distant. He is not disappointed in you. He delights in you (Zephaniah 3:17). And this is my heart too. To live open. To live receiving. To live grounded in the truth that I am deeply, eternally loved.

Live loved.

Because you already are.

Brian Romero