"Leah, trust me." His voice is gentle, as it always has been. His love is steady, as it always has been.
At the beginning of this week I heard God say to me, "Look for expressions of my love to you."
Because in the beginning of this week I didn't know how to describe my feelings, but I was hungry for more of God.
One morning, I took a walk, it was a road that led through the forest, it was so serene, a peacefulness I couldn't quite recreate. But as I was walking, I realized that in my life I had come out of one side of the forest. I had made it through some really hard things, I had wrestled against God to make sense out of hard things, I had fallen deeper into the arms of God. But I had come out and now I was on the road between two forests. I thought, "Jesus, I don't want to go into another forest, it's hard and I don't know what's in there."
He said, "Well, you could walk down the road, you would still see some secrets of the forest.. Or, you could go inside of the forest. Yes, it will be frightening, but it will be adventurous and fun."
As I stood in the middle of that road, weighing the two options in my hand, I decided to go into the forest. Because I knew there was still so much for me, Jesus had so much for my heart. And I wanted it.
He showed his love to me by speaking to me through nature, one of my favorite things.
This week I was in awe of my relationship with Jesus, it's a daddy/daughter relationship, a lover/beloved relationship and a best friend relationship. He meets all my greatest needs and I can come to him and say, "You are all I need, you are my one true desire."
I won't say all the things Jesus spoke over my life this week, but I will say that he gave me the gift of love. In so many ways, so many beautiful ways that are too lovely to put into words.
I just want to encourage you to find stories of your own. Pursue Jesus deeply, run after him, fall in love with him. Jesus wants a personal relationship with you. You can't have a personal relationship without two way communication. You can't just word vomit on Jesus and call it a relationship, you must let him speak to you, you have to let him love you! He wants to go deep, He wants to give you love.
In so many different places in the Bible God says, "I know you." Galatians 4:9 says, "Now that you know God--or rather are known by God..." The word for know in these passages is to know in an intimate, personal way." It is the same word that was used when Even became pregnant with Adam's child. "Adam knew even and she concieved." This is the word God uses to say he wants to know us with! This is crazy! God wants to know us! He doesn't need us, he wants us!
His love is surprising, so overwhelming, that I cannot describe it.
I want you to experience it for yourselves!
So those of you who have never experienced this incredible love, who have never quite recognized his voice, take the time today to be still before him. Ask him for a revelation of himself to you, he will give it to you.
At the beginning of this week I heard God say to me, "Look for expressions of my love to you."
Because in the beginning of this week I didn't know how to describe my feelings, but I was hungry for more of God.
One morning, I took a walk, it was a road that led through the forest, it was so serene, a peacefulness I couldn't quite recreate. But as I was walking, I realized that in my life I had come out of one side of the forest. I had made it through some really hard things, I had wrestled against God to make sense out of hard things, I had fallen deeper into the arms of God. But I had come out and now I was on the road between two forests. I thought, "Jesus, I don't want to go into another forest, it's hard and I don't know what's in there."
He said, "Well, you could walk down the road, you would still see some secrets of the forest.. Or, you could go inside of the forest. Yes, it will be frightening, but it will be adventurous and fun."
As I stood in the middle of that road, weighing the two options in my hand, I decided to go into the forest. Because I knew there was still so much for me, Jesus had so much for my heart. And I wanted it.
He showed his love to me by speaking to me through nature, one of my favorite things.
This week I was in awe of my relationship with Jesus, it's a daddy/daughter relationship, a lover/beloved relationship and a best friend relationship. He meets all my greatest needs and I can come to him and say, "You are all I need, you are my one true desire."
I won't say all the things Jesus spoke over my life this week, but I will say that he gave me the gift of love. In so many ways, so many beautiful ways that are too lovely to put into words.
I just want to encourage you to find stories of your own. Pursue Jesus deeply, run after him, fall in love with him. Jesus wants a personal relationship with you. You can't have a personal relationship without two way communication. You can't just word vomit on Jesus and call it a relationship, you must let him speak to you, you have to let him love you! He wants to go deep, He wants to give you love.
In so many different places in the Bible God says, "I know you." Galatians 4:9 says, "Now that you know God--or rather are known by God..." The word for know in these passages is to know in an intimate, personal way." It is the same word that was used when Even became pregnant with Adam's child. "Adam knew even and she concieved." This is the word God uses to say he wants to know us with! This is crazy! God wants to know us! He doesn't need us, he wants us!
His love is surprising, so overwhelming, that I cannot describe it.
I want you to experience it for yourselves!
So those of you who have never experienced this incredible love, who have never quite recognized his voice, take the time today to be still before him. Ask him for a revelation of himself to you, he will give it to you.
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