Actually, if you think about it, the Bible itself is just a huge love story.
God the father creates His children. He gives us free will so we can love Him.
So we can love Him.
We choose to sin against God, we are torn apart, separated by our own inequities. And all through the Old Testament God chases us relentlessly, proving time and time again that He loves us.
He loves us.
But we still don't get it, and so God does an incredibly ridiculous, scandalous thing- He puts on human skin, comes down and dies so that the tremendous gap between us and Him can be closed. The Creator of everything died because He loves us.
He died because He loves us.
And now we simply need to speak Christ's name and God is there, tenderly holding us, whispering words of encouragement to us, aching to spend time with us, to give us gifts, to help us. God wants to be SO intimate with us because He loves us.
I don't think we understand this enough. God is not some far away God who is cold. No, God wants us to be more close to Him than anything else. God wants us to feel His warmth, to hear his words, to rejoice and delight in His presence. God is our father, our dad, and he wants to wrestle with us and hold us and tell us that we are loved.
I want to understand that, and I want you to understand that. God is here, He is begging for time with you, not to judge you, but to simply love you. Do you have time for God? Because He has all the time for you.
Please, right now, take some time and let God be the father He is. Stop moving, stop thinking, and let Him hold you. I know this sounds weird, but He's just waiting.
Waiting to show you His love.
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