I would enjoy to secure you in something, dear one.

In this relationship that we have built, there are no longer singular notations. Where there once was “I”, “me”, and “mine”, now resides “us”, “we”, and “ours”.

You see, when I called you into this intimate relationship with me, I called you as a broken person who would soon be made whole. You used to love me as if I would leave. You loved in fear. Trust needed to be built, and this foundation is now strong. You have reached a direct point of beauty that far surpasses the outward appearance so easily praised by man. Your beauty adorns that of a precious jewel covered until the day to be worn.

Yes, you are intentionally being hidden.

I have put you away from the eyes of despise and I have prepared you for greater things behind the scenes. No one could have imagined just how much you are to be treasured. I am the Only One fit to mold you and love you exactly the way that you have needed and longed for. I saw deep within your heart and you were in need of my affection.

I have chosen you, beloved.

You were not assigned to me without choice. No, I should say not. Instead, I sought you out among many. I studied you in extravagant detail to learn how to win your heart. I pursued you diligently and without pause. I left all that belonged to me in order to inherit you. Don’t you see, my pearl of great price? You’ve been worth it all along!

This love I have given you is authentic.

You have seen false versions of this love. Many, many false versions of this love. Yet now you have known the real thing. The true thing. You see, my love expels darkness. My love demolished the idols in your life. When you said yes to me, you weren’t just saying yes to a “chance”. You were saying yes to a marriage, a covenant. I betrothed you, I asked you to start your life over with me, and you said yes. I have committed to take care of you, honor you, and protect you. I have promised to extend my strength to you and to make sure you are never in need of any good thing. Oh beloved, this is more than just invitation of faith, this is an ancient long pursuit of your heart. This is more than just learning about who I AM, this is about being in love with the I AM.

I would enjoy to tell you of something important.

You often declare to me, “There is no one like You, Lord!” But I say this as true: There is no one like YOU, beloved! There is no one like you in all the earth and the way that I love you, no one else has seen before. I love you wholly, intimately, and differently. My love for you could be placed into a category with dimensions and archives unknown to the human heart. Just as my thoughts toward you can be compared to all of the sand upon every created shore, so does my love run wild over you as far as my grace runs intertwined with eternity. The common ground to both can be summed up in this reality-shattering sentence: countless, boundless, measureless, limitless yet eternity-filled is my love for you! Your earthly mind cannot comprehend, ah but your spirit knows this and confirms this as truth. You are loved beyond your understanding, so I tell you, refrain from comparing my love to that of the world's.

My love for you is fixed. It is unmoved. It is trustworthy.

For I have loved you first, and I shall always love you greatest.

Rest in this today, dear one. Rest in the simple fact that you are perfectly loved.

Your Eternal Promise, Your forever King

Amy Basel