. . . that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom, and revelation in the knowledge of Him, (Ephesians 1:17).
It’s God that I came to know first. I think I needed a Daddy more than I needed a King. I’d never had one. Much later I needed a King, but not at the beginning. I needed to know His love. As a pre-teen I used to climb out the dormer windows in my bedroom and sit on the roof in the middle of the night. My parents had gone to bed, my sisters were asleep, all of them on the ground floor, me in the attic, and the night was as quiet as a tomb. I needed to sit on the rough tiles of the roof where I could breathe. I would look up in the sky, see all those stars, and marvel because something inside of me knew that whoever made all the shining lights of heaven, also made me and my world and loved me enough to put them in my sky. My heart sang to that someone, songs I made up on my roof. I needed that connection, no matter what, because down below, operating through those sleeping bodies, evil did it’s best to squash me. Thank God for my roof. Even when it was covered with snow, I crept outside, all bundled up, and sang to the heavens.
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Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with loving kindness I have drawn you (Jeremiah 31:3).
Sometimes I will stand still, deliberately, and throw my arms out to my sides and say, “Pour out your love on me, Lord, I need your love right this minute!” He is only too happy to comply. I close my eyes and throw my head back, and I can feel Him throw His arms around me and rub His cheek alongside mine. I then can walk away fulfilled as I know I am loved by the grandest love in the whole universe. I can hold out my arms to Him, even as a spiritual child, and He loves me like any parent loves their baby. He never pushes me away nor tells me He’s too busy for me. Never. He tells me I can come visit Him anytime I want, and he will never turn me away. The Church must get over its dismal outlook of God and His feelings for us. He loves us, pure and simple. He created us so that He could love us. To pretend that we have to earn His love is preposterous. We don’t have to earn credits or obey any rules except to love. We work because our work is our expression of love for Him. Did you know that the work you do on this earth is actually a form of worship? |
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