God
is an Evangelist
Throughout
this year God has been teaching me about His Heart, His Father’s Heart. He’s
taught me this in my shortcomings and my successes. He’s taught me when I didn’t
want to receive it for fear of failing him, and when I desperately wanted it
but didn’t want to humble myself and ask. He’s taught me more about His heart not
when I was good enough to understand it, or when I was good enough to share it.
He taught me more because He wanted to lavish His love on me so we could get
closer, and so that I would see His goodness.
The
biggest one we’ve ever seen, he sent His only Son to tell the whole world the
Truth and give them Eternal Life. Then He commanded us to go out and bring the
lost home to their real father. I have one sermon engrained in my head this
year, and it’s called “Coming Home” by Kris Valloton out of Bethel. He says in
his sermon, “what if we started becoming Fathers and Mothers instead of
brothers and sisters to this generation.” All judgment and condemnation would
go and God would fill our hearts with compassion and holy love for the people
around us.
He’s
been drawing us to Himself from the beginning of time. He’s been showing us the
way since creation, and the way was and is always Jesus. The Lord has been
encouraging me through Isaiah 61, which says, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon
me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has
sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and
release from darkness for the prisoners.” That is Jesus, that is you and me.
I
have asked for God’s heart and to be more like Jesus, and the way God’s been
showing up is through giving me a heart for the lost, broken and dying. Whenever I doubt His purpose for my life
or question my future with Him, this verse puts me right back to the center of
God’s will. I haven’t done any of
this on my own, and I recognize that the only reason I share the Love of Jesus
is because I’ve been forgiven of so much. One of my favorite scriptures is in
Luke 7 and the story of the sinful woman anointing Jesus’ feet. I just love it
because His heart for the sinner is so big, He forgave her completely and
washed her clean. He desires that all come to repentance. He’s not a distance
away, waiting for us to do wrong and then quickly He punishes us. His heart
breaks for us, He weeps over us, He longs for us. The God of this universe is
crazy about us.
He
can’t help himself because we are His delight, and all He wants is for us to
experience His love in abundance. He is the God who is not far away, but so
near and pursuing us forever. He gave us the most wonderful gift in the entire
world, and that is Jesus. He will not stop giving us His heart, and He’s not
asking us to be a part, He’s telling us to model our very lives after Him. Why
wouldn’t we want to be like the God of this universe? I can’t wait to follow in
my Daddy God’s footsteps, and I want to all the days of my life.
