Having a Heart in a Sometimes Heartless World
Scripture focus: Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn’t love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that. Ephesians 5:2 The Message
In John Eldredge’s latest news letter, he speaks of the relationship between a father and child as he quotes George MacDonald. It speaks far more eloquently than I ever could about the subject of yesterday’s devotional.
“To be a child is not necessarily to be a son or daughter. The childship is the lower condition of the upward process towards the sonship, the soil out of which the true sonship shall grow, the former without which the latter were impossible. God can no more than an earthly parent be content to have only children: he must have sons and daughters – children of his soul, of his spirit, of his love – not merely in the sense that he loves them, or even that they love him, but in the sense that they love like him, love as he loves. For this he does not adopt them; he dies to give them himself, thereby to raise his own to his heart; he gives them a birth from above; they are born again out of himself and into himself – for he is the one and the all. His children are not his real, true sons and daughters until they think like him, feel with him, judge as he judges, are at home with him, and without fear before him because he and they mean the same thing, love the same things, seek the same ends. For this are we created; it is the one end of our being, and includes all other ends whatever.” George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons, chapter “Abba Father!”
We will discover our most satisfactory living, not by getting our way, but by allowing God to have his way with us. If we allow this refining and transforming process to occur – here’s what we can expect:
= We will learn to love like God.
= We will think like God.
= We will feel like God.
= We will judge as he judges.
= We will be at home with God.
= We will be without fear before him.
= We will love the same things as God.
= We will seek the same ends as God.
“For this are we created; it is the one end of our being…”
May you find your satisfying life today!
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