A Letter from Your First Love

 

A Letter from Your First Love

These are not my words but my Father’s.  We all need to change our dependencies.  We depend on things of this world too much.  What are things of this world, you may ask?  Well, we depend on things like: marriage, children, money, clothes, toys (this can be for little children and/or adults…), family, friends, and even the church, to make us complete.  Why do we think that tangible things can ever be dependable?  When we take something like a family and look at it from the surface, are we really seeing every aspect that makes up a complete whole?  No, because families have issues.  Families make mistakes, families are not God.  What do I mean?  When we depend on someone or something besides God to make us complete or whole, we are robbing ourselves and others of a dependency that was only meant for the One who created us. 

Think about it...  God made you.  He knows everything about you.  Everything you have thought, done or will ever do.  This doesn’t mean that He didn’t give us the free will to choose our own life; it means He sees our future and nothing we do will surprise Him.

It’s hard to imagine right?  It definitely was for me.  But I think that God has infiltrated Himself more into my life than I ever thought was possible.  Believe me, I was not always that girl who let the Lord lead her.  I had to have control of my own life, mostly because I lost control of everything when I was 16 years old.  I looked to anything and everything “in this world” to fill me.  But it never gave me the contentment that I so desired for.  I longed for a relationship with someone that loved me for who I was, who didn’t want me to change a single thing about myself.  I longed for an absolute truth to my questions about who I was, where I was going, what I was doing here.  I believe those are questions that anyone has asked and sought the answers for.  I can’t tell you that my life is perfect, it will never be perfect.  But I can tell you that I got the answers to those questions and the things I longed for, “someone to love me for who I was”.  God, Himself came to me in my despair and lifted me up to solid ground.  I was sinking, and sinking fast.  To this day, I am not perfect.  I make mistakes.  I am human.  But I choose to live a different life than the one that was leading me nowhere. 

You too, can choose that for yourself.  No one can make you.  Only you can decide to choose Him. 

I pray for each and every one of you today, even if I don’t know who you are, God does.  He loves everything about you.  You are His beloved, His cherished one. 

“Therefore I am now going to allure her;
I will lead her into the wilderness
and speak tenderly to her.
There I will give her back her vineyards,
and will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope.
There she will respond as in the days of her youth,
as in the day she came up out of Egypt.

“In that day,” declares the Lord,
“you will call me ‘my husband’;
you will no longer call me ‘my master.” Hosea 2:14-16

Reminiscing on my Childhood

Reminiscing on My Childhood

 

Today I started reading Jeremiah.  I found it very fitting because my favorite verse is in the book of Jeremiah and I knew that there could be some more favorites in it.   I don’t know why, but I started in the second chapter, but God revealed some things to me in reading it.  First of all, Jeremiah is a prophet, which means that God is speaking directly through him.  No, not like a crazy séance in which dead people are speaking through a human, but our Creator, God is telling Jeremiah what to say to the people of Israel.  And right now, WE ARE ISRAEL, people!  We have strayed away from our God, gone into exile and are pushing everything we know about how great He is away from us.  So, we are ISRAEL.  Got it?  Good. 

Jeremiah 2:1-2 (CEV)

“The LORD told me to go to Jerusalem and tell everyone that He had said:

                “When you were my young bride, you loved Me and followed Me through the barren desert.”

Can I just say that, the word of the Lord came to me and He said that this is more real to us then we know?  When we were younger in years, like little children, we loved on our parents.  We were so inspired by them.  They taught us everything we know: how to walk, how to talk, the right things to do and what not to do.  They showed us the way and we earnestly followed them.  But as we grew, we grew further and further away from them.  It starts really young too, like three years old… we want to be independent from them and “do it all by our self!”  Because that means that we are a “big kid” and “grown up”.  Trust me; I am having some major issues with this right now with my little one, who is growing up so fast.  They grow up and try to do it on their own, without our help.  Just like we, as adults do, to our Creator. 

Jeremiah 2:3

“You belonged to me alone, like the first part of the harvest, and I severely punished those who mistreated you.”

In these first verses of chapter 2, it is God reminiscing back to when we were “young children” in our faith.  We followed Him, even through the hard times because He was our “Daddy”.  We knew, without a doubt that He was going to care for us.  We trusted Him and every word He said.  What happened to us?  Why did we grow up and away from our Daddy and try to do life our own way? 

We are doing the same thing Israel did in the Bible.  We are turning our back on God because we don’t get what we want.  Just like when a little child doesn’t get their way, they throw a fit and eventually that fit will turn into a complete abandonment from because we grow up and push the ONE who brought us to life, away.  We are stubborn children, but the One who loves us, will never leave us or forsake us.  It’s so amazing to me to see how God feels through being a parent.  Being a parent is hard and there will be moments of rejection from my child that I am not looking forward to, but I know that God created a parent and child relationship to reflect the same relationship we have with Him.  As we grow in life and faith, we experience God in every area of our lives and that is worth living for.  It’s time to turn back to our Daddy and see Him for what He done for us.  We need to think back into our “childhood” and be thankful for a God who has never abandoned us and never will.  Come back to your Daddy and love on Him the way you did when you were a child.  We’re never too old to be a “Child of Christ” again.