Our heart and God's heart
I wish you would call more often. I wish you would ask me how my day went. I wish you would show me your love in visible ways. "Buy me a rose, call me from work". You want me to always be there for you when you need me, but other times you neglect me. You only realise your need for me in your life when we are far apart or when the relationship is hanging on the edge. I want you to remember me and cherish me both in your ups and downs! Could you not go back to being the person that you were to me when we first knew each other? I wish you would never grow tired of being with me and talking to me, as well as listening. I wish you would stop taking me for granted.
Taking me for granted.
For granted.
Sounds familiar.
For such is my own behaviour towards my Maker and my God - the Lover of my soul and the One my heart loves. Is love alone enough, I always wonder. We know that our salvation is won not by works but by faith. By admitting to God our need for Him. By telling Him that we LOVE Him. Yet what is LOVE when it is not accompanied by works?
Perhaps this is what God is saying to me right now, as a parallel of the above paragraph:
I wish you would pray more often. That you would obey the voice inside you that tells you to pick up and open that Bible which lies just in front of you on the shelf. That Book which many a times you cast aside for meaningless activities and menial tasks. I wish you would love me and show that you love me by obeying my commands. I AM always there for you, have always been and always will. But have you always been 'there' for me when I wanted so badly to tell you something? I want you to remember me and think of me often, just as you are always on my mind. But your heart has turned cold, it is no longer on fire for me as it used to be when you first knew me. I wish you would never grow tired of praying, of reading my word and worshipping me. I wish you would stop taking me for granted.
Who is it that I'm asking to change, when I myself have not changed? Whose love is greater? Yours? Mine?
Or God's?
Taking me for granted.
For granted.
Sounds familiar.
For such is my own behaviour towards my Maker and my God - the Lover of my soul and the One my heart loves. Is love alone enough, I always wonder. We know that our salvation is won not by works but by faith. By admitting to God our need for Him. By telling Him that we LOVE Him. Yet what is LOVE when it is not accompanied by works?
Perhaps this is what God is saying to me right now, as a parallel of the above paragraph:
I wish you would pray more often. That you would obey the voice inside you that tells you to pick up and open that Bible which lies just in front of you on the shelf. That Book which many a times you cast aside for meaningless activities and menial tasks. I wish you would love me and show that you love me by obeying my commands. I AM always there for you, have always been and always will. But have you always been 'there' for me when I wanted so badly to tell you something? I want you to remember me and think of me often, just as you are always on my mind. But your heart has turned cold, it is no longer on fire for me as it used to be when you first knew me. I wish you would never grow tired of praying, of reading my word and worshipping me. I wish you would stop taking me for granted.
Who is it that I'm asking to change, when I myself have not changed? Whose love is greater? Yours? Mine?
Or God's?
posted by may at 11:28 PM
5 Comments:
cudn't agree more with those words... (both the original AND the one you paraphrased... in relation to God of course)
our relationship with God is a unique one. it's one we should look with a simple perspective: "i love you Lord". but at the same time not with such simplicity that we forget to live in accordance to His will... indeed God is a God of Love.. but let us not forget the other aspects of Him who created us.
something i just read yesterday which made me reflect on my first love with God, in relation to my 'works'. ACTS 17:24-25 "He is the God who made the world and everything in it. Since he is Lord of heaven and earth, he doesn't live in man-made temples, and human hands can't serve his needs - for he has no need. He himself fives life and breath to everything, and he satisfies every need there is.
Let's stop taking Him for granted!
So true those words are...
Makes you think of the times you always blame God of not being there... makes me think of the footprints poem.
Hope you're studying hard, and all the best in your preparations and exams! ;)
thanks for sharing your thoughts! (and yishan.. no more anonymous? hehe) sometimes the way God speaks to me is quite startling... it's like, a slap in the face? okay not THAT 'violent' lah but you know what i mean...
in many ways our relationship with God can be likened to our relationship with our spouse. we expect certain things from our spouses when we ourselves do not realise that it's these very things that God desires of us too. e.g. time, devotion, sacrifice.
and yes, the footprints poem... very poignant. maybe i'll post it up here when i find it =)
oh... God speaks to us in so many ways, and its so difficult sometimes to take a step back or slow down and listen. But its already a step when we take the time to encourage each other to. To tell each other not to worry so much about where we stand in the world, but where we stand with God. To pray for each other as we pray for ourselves. To admit we can't do it alone and pray for Him to strengthen our faithful spirit and walk with us as we do.
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