Sunday, January 16, 2011

Obsession with Falling in Love

So, I was praying the other night when this light bulb went off.  I now get why American Christians in particular need to be told over and over again that God loves us....because we are in love with God falling in love with us over and over again.  It's the same narcissistic mentality of extra marital affairs.  "I don't feel God close to me"/"I don't feel like I even know my husband anymore."  "I don't know if God can forgive me"/"I don't know if my husband even likes me."  The list can go on and on and on and on.  We think because we have sinned or become the wayward child that somehow God has lost His love for us, when really it's we want Him to woo us back to Him again and again.  We want Him to come begging us to be good and behave and lure us into His love again.  We NEED it!  He doesn't need to do it.  If God doesn't seem close at a particular time, we will sell ourselves into the closest slavery we can find because we know that He will rescue us and that we need Him to to remind us how much He loves us.
NEWS FLASH!  JESUS IS YOUR LOVE STORY!!  THERE IS NO MORE OR OTHER PURE FORM OF LOVE!  GOD DOES NOT LOVE YOU MORE OR LESS...SO QUIT NEEDING HIM TO LOVE YOU AGAIN...OR MORE...OR WHATEVER YOUR INSECURITIES HAVE FOOLED YOU INTO.

Just rest in it and move forward!  There is a whole kingdom to be built that you are missing out on if you need God to love you again.  There is soooo much more depth that He wants to go with you, but you have to get out of needing roses and chocolate from God.  There is soooo much more to His mystery that He wants to reveal to you if you will quit needing Him to remind you that He's not going to leave you and that He loves you...He promises He does.  He made a covenant with us through the blood of His perfect unblemished son, that unfortunately so often times our marriages are so screwed up that we don't even know what that means.  But God is a faithful father and Jesus is a honorable husband to us his bride, the church.  There is sooooo much more if you will allow your relationship to mature with God and get real and nitty gritty.  Invite Him into your ugliest places so that He can reveal light into it and begin to change it...BUT HE LOVES YOU!  He loved you first, that's why He created us!
Try falling in love with Jesus, cause He already loves you.  It's a feeling like none other that will inspire you like no other and all this will pass away and you will still have YOUR LOVE FOR JESUS!

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