God the Romantic

"GOD told them, "I've never quit loving you and never will. Expect love, love, and more love!" -Jeremiah 31:3 (MSG)"Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life." -Proverbs 4:23

Do we realize how much God loves us?

And I don't mean love only in the unconditional, fatherly love that we hear so much of. Don't get me wrong, it is a powerful love still, but if we focus merely on that we miss so much. I have been reading the book The Sacred Romance and at first was very skeptical about the ideas proposed by the authors about God wanting to romance our soul. But as I have continued to read it is starting to make sense that God not only has my best interests at heart and has looked after my eternal well-being by sending Jesus, but he also longs for a deep relationship with me, as complex as what married people share with each other. He is impacted by my actions and I have the choice to return his love and bring him joy or ignore that wonderful reality and try to earn my way into his favor. Or worse yet, ignore it altogether and get caught up in the daily busy-ness of life and pursuing my own happiness. How sad that so many people don't grasp the intense love that God longs for us to bask in.

What happens when you love someone and are loved in return? You are not scared to be yourself, right? And who cares what others think of you, you are loved and that's all that matters. Someone wants to know you for YOU, quirks and all. When you are seperated from that person you think of them often and can't wait to be with them again. They brighten your day. They make your heart sing.

Does God have this place in our lives? Do we get excited when we think of him and blush when we tell of the way he loves us to our friends, not quite believing that he picked us? Why don't we? Satan is all too good at seperating us from our hearts and deadening our senses, constantly sending us messages that it is all too good to be true. We rarely if ever experience this love in our human relationships, and it usually comes with hiding the ugly, undesirable parts of ourselves. Noone could love those.

Aah but God does! That's what makes it so wonderful. He loves us where we're at. He loves us INTENSELY, despite our flaws and sins. We are unfaithful lovers, constantly doing our own thing without the slightest concern for how it affects our Love. Our "Love". We must start treating him with the respect and faithfulness, for of anyone he is the one who will NEVER leave, NEVER disappoint, and NEVER EVER act out of selfishness. He loves us perfectly.

What is keeping us from doing our absolute best to make him the center of our lives? He will never break our hearts. Stop with comparing to others and let go of your insecurity. Somebody loves you! Oh and not just somebody, THE One and Only.

Let's throw off all doubt and lavish our love back on him!