Lilke
a game of hopscotch sometimes our relationship with God is like jumping from
one box to the next heading towards the top to reach ‘home’ as we are drawn
towards the center of Him.
He
loves us and He calls to us and says jump in, jump into Me, I am good and I
love you.
Since
deep down we realize our depravity and the futility of living for ourselves we
think that maybe we will reach out to find the God who loves us.
It’s
difficult to believe. But He calls to
us. So we take a leap and land in the
first box only to discover just how wretched we are. But before we have time to retreat He says
yes you are wretched, but I love you, come to Me and know Me.
So
we jump into the next box drawn by that love.
There we find a God of sacrificial love – so much love that He gave His
son to die for us. And there we realize
our unworthyness and perhaps think to bolt again. But just in time He reaches out and says to
us, yes you are unworthy, but I love you, come to Me and know Me.
And
so we jump into yet another box confident of His love for us. And we find a God of steadfast commitment to
us who will not let us go, which reveales to us our wayward hearts that are so
easily drawn from Him like a magpie after any shiny thing we seek to
hoard. Still He reaches and calls to us
and our shame is overcome by the steadfast love He pours out on us.
Jumping
into the next box we find a God of strength, creator, almighty, soverign, and
altogether fearful in His awesome power.
Before we have time to shrink under the prospect of being smashed to
pieces simply by being drawn near to Him, He again softly whispers you are
small and weak but I will hold you up, and He gives us His tender care and
provision to meet our every need. And we are drawn even closer to Him with
gratitude and trepidation.
The
next box we jump into then we find a Holy God without sin or any shadow of
turning, who is so far above our wildest imagination that we shrink and fall to
our faces in wonder that we are able to live in His presence. He says yes worship Me for I am that I am and
there is no other, but He lifts us up and He dusts us off and He says to us,
you are my precious child and all I desire is to have you know Me. When I look at you I see my Son and the love
He demonstrated by giving His life for you.
I
love you. Know me and know the love I
have for you.
There
are many more boxes of God, these are just a few off the top of my head. Maybe something silly like hopscotch can help
to reveal God to someone? idk
We’re
all broken people.
Only
God can fix us.
But
it does not happen on this side of heaven.
All
we can do is jump into Him and give all we can give of ourselves to Him, every
day, every moment, every step of the way, as we make our way to be with Him
forever.
How
totally cool that we get to tell the other broken people about Him and maybe
hold their hand as they jump into Him also.
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