Undaunted by Christine CaineSample

Life will eventually turn every person upside down and inside out. No one is immune. Not the mom who finds out her teenage daughter is pregnant. Not the husband who is entangled in a financial disaster. Not the kid whose parents are strung out on drugs. Not the girl enslaved in human trafficking. Not the boy who’s hungry and without any prospect of enough to eat. And not the woman who finds out her whole sense of identity is based on a family connection that turns out to be a lie. 

Not you. Not me. 

But just as life will upend you, so will love. 

Love has the power to undo you for fear of losing it, as it did my parents over the thought of George and me discovering our adoption. Love has the power to bewilder, as it does when a baby, a new life, comes into your world. 

God’s love, which knows you and claimed you before you were even born, can take you beyond yourself, as it did Jesus, who left heaven to go to the cross and pass through the grave in order to bring us back home. 

God’s love can bring you through emotional earthquakes, as it did me the afternoon that I learned I was adopted. It was news that could have flattened me, but instead I was carried by God’s promises. Love like God’s can lift you out of betrayal and hurt. It can deliver you from any mess. Love like that can release you from every prison of fear and confusion. And love like God’s can fill you up till it spills out of you, and you have to speak about it and spread it around. 

Adapted from Undaunted: Daring To Do All That God Calls You To Do by Christine Caine. Copyright © 2019 by Christine Caine. Reprinted with permission of Zondervan Publishing. All rights reserved.