How He Loves Us

I'm sure that many of you have heard the song "How He Loves Us" by David Crowder, but have you really thought about the words of that song? The first lines of the song are "He is jealous for me." Do you truly know what that means? The creator of this world and universe is jealous for me!

The fact of the matter is, God was jealous for me because he was not getting all of my heart. I can honestly say that two months ago God was not high on my list of priorities and because of it He removed the things that were above him. As he began to put a tug on my heart I knew the things that needed to happen, and I knew they were not going to be easy. Its kind of like the lines from that Fray song, "sometimes the hardest things and the right things are the same." I had to let go of the things in my life that mattered the most to me.

After doing so, I found myself in one of the most vulnerable places I had ever been and I did not like it. I questioned why God needed to put me through it, but I am so thankful now that he did. I think that many of us are so afraid to let ourselves be vulnerable because when we are vulnerable we feel things that aren't always pleasant. One of the only things that helped me in this place of vulnerability was the fact that God loves me. I must have listened to this song at least fifty times and just kept singing "oh how He loves me."

Because he loves me, he wants all of me. God broke my heart so He could put it back together again. You may wonder why I phrase it that way, but I truly believe that is what happened. "Jesus has to thwart us --thwart our self-redemptive plans, our controlling and our hiding, thwart the ways we are seeking to fill the ache within us. Otherwise, we would never fully turn to him for our rescue." (Captivating) I completely agree with this statement. I turned to God for my rescue and suddenly I became aware of his glory and his affections for me! His love for me was all I had, and all I needed.

This was the first of my lessons from God...

A little about me

So the other day I decided that I wanted to start blogging. Now it was not just a spur of the moment thing, it came about because of a scripture verse...

2 Cor. 1:3-4 "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God."

The past two months God has taken me on a journey (and still is) that is drawing me back to his heart. He has shown me so much and I feel like I need to share some of the important lessons he has taught me, and I hope that those lessons can help other people.

So now I would like to take you guys on the journey God has been taking me on...