These thoughts were based on an email conversation Becky and Dad were having about the book The Love Dare, by Stephen Kendrick and Alex Kendrick; 2008
The passages mentioned in this book are worth a lifetime look and meditation.
Once you see Jesus there is no turning back. The world is full of duty
bound people trying to be something they are not - good. God is by
nature good and the good news is that he came to live in us and make us
Godlike. Not Gods but like him and living in him and he in us. He
slowly and gently (it doesn't always feel gentle) implants his passion
and love tendency in us. Love has nothing to do with the object of
love. Love is not rational as we normally think of rational. It places
great value in the happiness of its object. In Gods case it is us. He
never says why this is so. He just loves us and has since before we
were born and even before time. This love messes up your mind and
infects you. All of a sudden dying to yourself seems like the only way
to be happy as long as the loved one is happy. Not happy, as in you want
to enter their selfish pursuits and keep them company in their
selfishness and be together while you are both alone. It is more in
getting them happy in love with Jesus. What a man. Who has ever lived
like him.
I like your if you ain't struggling you ain't
praying thought. ["...if you're not striving and struggling there's no felt need to pray!"] Very insightful. Sometime you just take a vacation
but God does not leave us there. He is the pursuer and he will do
anything to secure his lover. "I woke to find my soul in fragments
given to a thousand lovers. Only one will have no other- hangs to heal
me-sheds his blood." Our misbehavior cannot affect his passion it can
only make him sad and angry. His passion keeps him going pursuing,
carefully and astutely working on his love to bring her around to see
this great love and in so doing break her heart and cause her to love
and even adore him because he has won her heart as he was pouring out
his heart for her. He chose her becasue he had no choice but to choose
her because she was the object of his fascination and desire. Does God
ever do his duty?
