I wanted to re-post this from a while ago, I needed the reminder and I believe there are others who visit here that need it too!
Enjoy HIM today.
We live in a love story. We are created for romance and we have an insatiable capacity for it. Now, God gave us such a heart; it was one of his first gifts to us.
Then he gives to us this world that is so breathtakingly beautiful.
You see it in the fact that he made grass just firm enough that it stands up straight like a carpet, but not too firm that it hurts you when you run on it with bare feet.
And he makes snow just firm enough for snowballs and sledging, but not so firm that it hurts us when it falls; it falls so softly.
He makes birds and their songs just loud enough to be delightful and he creates our ear to delight in the sound.
Do you begin to see the
tenderness and love
of God through all creation?
And then he gives to each of us those unique and particular things that capture our hearts, those things we loved when we were young and those things we love even still – horses, the wind, playing and instrument, the laugh of a child.
He gave you all the things that you have ever loved, and all those joys that are unique and particular to you – the puppy you got when you were seven, your favourite bike, running barefoot on the grass in the summertime in the evenings when the dew was on the grass and the day was still warm but the grass was cool.
All of this is the love of God wooing you. Some of you found the romance of God at the beach.
Some of you found it on the rivers or in the meadows. Some of you found it in books.
All that has ever stirred your heart, that was God romancing you.
Turn your face into it…that is what HE wants. Turn your face into the things that bring romance to your hearts. Give it over to Him.
That is how you experience the love of God.*
*extract from Love and War by John & Stasi Eldredge
