It's All About Love
Love. It is all about love. In His zeal for love, God created man. The Ancient of Days, the uncreated God of glory and power, in His zeal for love, chose to lock His gaze on mankind.
In the garden, He formed the object of His love and gave him a family. In partnership with God, the first man, Adam, felt the purpose of existence: to love and be loved walking out a life in partnership with God.
Love is what was violated in man's rebellion. Corrupted by a lie, the first Adam decided he wanted more than love, in not believing He was the apple of God's eye, Adam missed the fact that every good and perfect thing had ALREADY been given to him, Adam walked away from love, and exchanged truth for a lie.
God never gave up on love. The endless One never took His gaze off of man. He made a way, through Jesus, to restore love. Just like love was a choice for man in the garden, love continues to be a choice to this day. Love doesn't demand its own way, it isn't boastful, or rude, or arrogant. It is long suffering and kind.
Have you ever wondered why God usually chooses the "still small voice" that is so hard to hear through the loud clanging of self-noise? It is for love. Can you imagine if God said something to you in the normal power of His voice?! Love would be violated...you couldn't help but respond to that kind of power with submission! It isn't aloofness that God has chosen, it is love.
If I will take the time to seek God, He is more than willing to be found. He hasn't turned His back on love even one degree from the love that caused Him to desire to spend the pleasant part of the evening with Adam. But He will not violate love. He woos us to the door of encountering Him, but if we want more than that, He requires we seek Him first. We seek Him by asking Him to reveal Himself to us. It takes God to love God, so we ask Him to help us make Him first in our lives...our first love, above all others. We ask Him to speak with us clearly, in a way that we can hear Him. We look for His voice to us in His written words to us, we watch for Him intently throughout the day in the opportunities He presents before us. If we seek Him, we WILL find Him. It is a promise.
What we believe God is willing to give us tells us a lot about who we think He is. Would a good father rebuke a child that seeks Him?
Luke 11: 9 “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
11 If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? 13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”
Psalm 9:10 And those who know Your name will put their trust in You; For You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.
In the garden, He formed the object of His love and gave him a family. In partnership with God, the first man, Adam, felt the purpose of existence: to love and be loved walking out a life in partnership with God.
Love is what was violated in man's rebellion. Corrupted by a lie, the first Adam decided he wanted more than love, in not believing He was the apple of God's eye, Adam missed the fact that every good and perfect thing had ALREADY been given to him, Adam walked away from love, and exchanged truth for a lie.
God never gave up on love. The endless One never took His gaze off of man. He made a way, through Jesus, to restore love. Just like love was a choice for man in the garden, love continues to be a choice to this day. Love doesn't demand its own way, it isn't boastful, or rude, or arrogant. It is long suffering and kind.
Have you ever wondered why God usually chooses the "still small voice" that is so hard to hear through the loud clanging of self-noise? It is for love. Can you imagine if God said something to you in the normal power of His voice?! Love would be violated...you couldn't help but respond to that kind of power with submission! It isn't aloofness that God has chosen, it is love.
If I will take the time to seek God, He is more than willing to be found. He hasn't turned His back on love even one degree from the love that caused Him to desire to spend the pleasant part of the evening with Adam. But He will not violate love. He woos us to the door of encountering Him, but if we want more than that, He requires we seek Him first. We seek Him by asking Him to reveal Himself to us. It takes God to love God, so we ask Him to help us make Him first in our lives...our first love, above all others. We ask Him to speak with us clearly, in a way that we can hear Him. We look for His voice to us in His written words to us, we watch for Him intently throughout the day in the opportunities He presents before us. If we seek Him, we WILL find Him. It is a promise.
What we believe God is willing to give us tells us a lot about who we think He is. Would a good father rebuke a child that seeks Him?
Luke 11: 9 “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
11 If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? 13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”
Psalm 9:10 And those who know Your name will put their trust in You; For You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.
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