Oh! How He loves us!

I've spoken of this before. But it's been on my heart lately.

What do we do when we let people know all of us? When we really allow them to see our heart? We say, I'm trusting that you can love me and my faults now. I'm giving you the choice to love me regardless of my insecurities and faults, or to leave me. I love you enough, and I want to know if you love me enough.

It is so hard to let people in. We essentially are putting our hearts in the hands of another human, and that is dangerous enough. Cause all too often people choose to leave.

Someone asked me if I have anyone I can go to with everything. Everything on my mind, everything on my heart, and someone who knows everything about me. I couldn't say yes. It's hard to admit even, because I love when people open up to me, yet I can't do the same.

All too often, God get's put down as a God of rules. What they don't realize is that out God is a God with a broken heart. Everyday He puts His whole heart in the hands of His people, and get's put off till tomorrow, ignored, rejected, and to a world where He's given everything, He's given nothing.

What good has ever come from lying, cheating, hatred, lust, jealousy, and malice? I don't believe God puts laws in our life to keep us from having fun. I think it's because He is all knowledgeable, and wants to save us from our hurtful sinful nature that He has to witness everyday.

One of the hardest books for me to read is Genesis. It's where all of the different heartbreaks happen, and they happen to the one God that does nothing but Love. God didn't put the tree of knowledge in the garden of Eden to taunt them, or to say you can have all this, except that. It was the first instant where God laid out His heart in front of them.

Genesis 3:8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the LORD God called to the man, "Where are you?"

God allowed man free will. It wasn't just the will to obey Him, but to love Him. They had broken His heart with the one thing He didn't want for them. He didn't want the sin to enter the world, and the action that Adam and Eve took all of His gifts and poisoned them.

How is that for heartbreak?

Our God is a loving God. He wants nothing more than for us to recognize it and love Him back.

I want nothing more than to warm His heart. So when you are having a trialing day, turn to God. Because there is no one in the world who understands what you're going as well as your Father.

God says "Me too."