A little rambling

I have recently visited a blog site of someone very dear to me. I have known them since they were just a wee babe. On this blog there were many others writing entries who were also dear people I have known for a long time. It was a lot of fun to read the entries they made.

It has been a long time since I have seen many of them and it was so wonderful to see tham all living a life that if full and exciting and most importantly - God focused. There are so many young people in the world today who have no hope and no life in their lives. People who are either living for themselves, living in fear or just plain living in darkness. To hear that these hearts are still running after God did more than refresh me, it renewed a hope in my heart.

There is nothing more important than pursuing the heart of God and learning not just how to love him but how to be loved by Him. One way that He loves on us is by pouring blessing and joy and life into our lives and that makes all the difference in the world. True this is not our motivation - to worship God purley for Himself is the ultimate goal - but it is definitely an effect. I have been struggling through learning how to allow God to love me. (As if I could stop Him!) After all, Jesus died to reconcile us back to the Father. I think He deserves what He gave so much for. Don't you? Don't get me wrong, blessings are not the only way God loves on us. Healing inside and out, deliverance, and freedom are certainly ways but so is discipline and correction.

So, I am learning to be Fathered - to be the daughter. I thought I had already learned this but evidently there always more. That's what He keeps telling me.

Quote of the Day

"Our intense need to understand will always be a powerful stumbling block to our attempts to reach God and must always be overcome. For if you do not overcome this need to understand, it will undermine your quest. It will replace the darkness which you have pierced to reach God with clear images of something which, however good, however beautiful, however Godlike, is not God."

14th century by an anonymous English monk

(I read this post on my brother's blog site. it was posted there by someone anonymously!)