...I thought I'd share a few tid-bits and attempt to keep ya'lls up to date on the happenings in the life of John. (Well... kinda.)
So the song that
just came on is "Hello" by Hawk Nelson, and if you don't know what that song is just go ahead and
YouTube it. But anyways, moving on. (Good song by the way.)
I had decided when I read my devos this morning that they were worth the time taken to type them up and share them, and so, without further ado, here is my morning devos. (They are from The Ransomed Heart by John Eldredge, page 274.)
What is it that God wants from you?
He wants the same thing that you want. He wants to be loved. He wants to be known as only lovers can know each other. He wants intimacy with you. Yes, yes, he wants your obedience but only when it flows out of a heart filled with love for him. "Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me" (John 14:21). Following hard after Jesus is the heart's natural response when it has been captured and fallen deeply in love with Him.
Reading George MacDonald several years ago, I cam across an astounding thought. You've probably heard that there is in every human heart a place that God alone can fill. (Lord knows we've tried to fill it with everything else, to our utter dismay.) But what the old poet was saying was that there is also in God's heard a place that you alone can fill. "It follows that there is also a chamber in God himself, into which none can enter but one, the individual." You. You are meant to fill a place in the heart of God no one else and nothing else can fill. Woah. He longs for you.
God wants to live this life together with you, to share in your days and decisions, your desires and disappointments. He wants intimacy with you in the midst of the madness and mundane, the meetings and memos, the laundry and lists, the carpools and conversations and projects and pain. He wants to pour his love into your heart and he longs to have you poor yours into his. He wants your deep heart; that center place within that is the truest you. He is not interested in intimacy with the person you think you are supposed to be. He wants intimacy with the real you.
Yeah. Pretty awesome thought, right? I sure think it is.
I might give my full update yet today. We'll see what becomes of that idea though.
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