What do we mean when we say "God loves us?"
Please tell me if I am wrong, but do not most/many of us think that God loving us means that we can have some emotional buzz to feel good about ourselves, about life and even about others? We think it means we now get to go to heaven and live happily ever after. We think it means now we have to pay Him back by giving Him our lives, our desires, our focus, our activity. We think it means that we have to perform at some high level of righteousness so that He will approve of us and not judge us and not remove His love from us.
It really means none of that.
God loving us means we don't have to pretend or cover up or perform or even be holy. In fact, we do Him a disservice, offend and grieve Him when we do, especially since He has poured Himself out for us. He created Adam in a state of complete and shameless nakedness, completely open, physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually. In that openness He came and conversed with Adam. And when Adam chose to cover up, He still came. He was not the least put off by Adam's guilt or shame. Rather, He Himself found a solution to allow the Second Adam to come and be completely at One with Him, and in so doing, invite us into the restoration of the open relationship.
God loving us means we are asked, invited, compelled, even, to restored to Him in all of our nakedness, all of our brokenness, all of our shame and guilt and sense of failure and inadequacy. We are invited, even expected, to come as real, live, breathing, thinking, feeling, desiring, autonomous people. And in that openness and in that nakedness God lovingly, gently, laughingly pours in His quieting, His healing, His balm, His peace, His joy, His self-confidence, Hi s acknowledgement to each of us of our uniqueness, our glory, our beauty, our personhood. He satisfies the deepest need within each of us and brings us to that great, fulfilling, resting
AAAAAAHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhh..............
Get open, get real, go with God to
AAAAAAHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhh..............
Blessings,
Dr Jon
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