For Love's Sake

I didn’t think I was going to write anything this week as nothing came and so I didn’t want to force it.  But, as I was lying awake early morning focusing on the Lord and meditating on His goodness, I realized that just like a diamond reflecting the light showing off the many facets, so the Lord has many facets to who He is and how much He loves us.  Just when you think you have an idea of who He is, He shows you something more.  My words are somehow too ordinary to express what I am seeing.  I also realize that even though our ability is limited to comprehend a fraction of His person, He still wants to be known by us.  

You hear people say they want to do this, or they want to do that for the Lord, and I sometimes wonder if they realize that everything they have and all they can do - their talents, intellect, abilities - are all from His hand.  We cannot breathe or even move without Him helping us.  With everything He gave us we can decide if we want to use it for His glory, for the recognition that the world gives, or for our own purposes.  We have nothing that He didn’t give us and so we really have nothing to give Him that is of such great value, except one thing - He gave us the ability to freely choose Him, to love Him.  He wants us to choose Him every day, but He will not force us.

He made it all, He owns it all.  The Bible says in Ps 50:10 “For every beast of the forest is Mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills.”  He doesn't need what we can offer Him, except for one thing - He wants our hearts. He wants our love.  

I often think about the scripture in Mat 7:21-23 (AMP):


21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me on that day [when I judge them], ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, and driven out demons in Your name, and done many miracles in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them publicly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me [you are banished from My presence], you who act wickedly [disregarding My commands].’


What a great privilege, that we can know the God of the universe.  The flipside of that though - the most sobering and devastating words ever - “depart from me, I never knew you”.  You did all these things for me, in My name, on My behalf, yet you never took the time to look in My face, to let Me love and know you.  


May we seek to bring our hearts to know Him and for Him to know us while it is still day.  Don’t wait until your heart and your life is perfect.  He doesn't want that.  He wants you to come just as you are so He can help you fix it.  He knew we would not be able to do it on our own.  That is why He died.


Take your heart to Him, take it often, take it when it is dirty, when it is hard and hurting, when you just don’t know what to do anymore.  He will heal the hurt, show you the offense, reveal the trappings of the enemy.  But more importantly, He will help you clean it up, see truth, find direction - get closer to Him.  He will never judge or make you feel condemned.  He is always loving; He will let you leave a better person than how you came.  HE IS THAT GOOD!


The Creator-God of the universe, who can have anything He wants, is calling for you today.  He wants to have a relationship with you, He wants you to know His love, He wants you to know His heart.  But more than that:


He wants you to freely choose to love Him back.  How about it?





Photo: Janine's view.


If you want to receive email notifications for new blog posts, please head to the home page www.findingthemore.blogspot.com for a free subscription.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Rivers of Living Water

Have you ever wondered why, even though you have the Spirit of the Living God on the inside of you, you still feel like there is no life on the inside?   Like you are missing the “more” abundant life that John speaks about in John 10:10?     Yesterday the Lord showed me one of the keys to finding the “more”.   It is in John 4 from V14:  14 But whoever drinks the water that I give him will never be thirsty again. But the water that I give him will become in him a spring of water [satisfying his thirst for God] welling up [continually flowing, bubbling within him] to eternal life.”  And in John 7 from V38: 38 He who believes in Me [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Me], as the Scripture has said, ‘From his innermost being will flow continually rivers of living water.’” 39 But He was speaking of the [Holy] Spirit, whom those who believed in Him [as Savior] were to receive afterward. The Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified (raised to honor). So i
Read more

Set Your Mind..

Image
I am sure I am not the only one who feels alone from time to time.  People can leave you; friends move on, or circumstances and situations can make you feel like your life is overwhelming you to the point of despair.  In times such as this, have you ever thought about where God is?  He does after all say that He will never leave us nor forsake us. I heard someone tell a part of her testimony the other day.  When she was younger, she made the wrong friends, and these relationships soon made her question if God is real.  She seriously considered renouncing her faith in God.  At the time she was far away from home and felt all alone.  At one stage she sat sobbing in her room.  She didn’t say how she got out of the situation but shared that years later she asked the Lord where He was when she was going through this.  His response was that as she was sitting at her desk sobbing and staring at the wall, He was right behind her sitting on her bed.  Problem was that she was so focussed on her
Read more

Homeschooling Gracie

Image
I had Sammy before Gracie came.  Sammy was well trained and had degrees in obedience that she earned from Mr Green in puppy obedience school.  She was a great dog.  Her Schnauzer mom and dad would have been so proud as I can honestly say that throughout her life, she was all the dog she could possibly be. Then I got Gracie.  Her pure bloodline was questionable and turned out to be a fabricated story from a scheming lady who wanted to inflate her own retirement fund.  In spite of this, Gracie was a super intelligent puppy with all the potential to become a really great dog.   My dad was still here when Gracie came, and he helped me a lot. But when he passed, I didn’t have anyone who could help.  I looked online and found a German lady called Barbra who was an animal behaviourist and a dog trainer.  She started coming twice a week to homeschool Gracie who quickly learned obedience and how to walk with a leash.   One of the things she cautioned me about was that if Gracie did something w
Read more