This morning this wonderful song from camp has been playing in my head:
"You are an endless ocean, a bottomless sea.
You are an endless ocean, a bottomless sea.
There's no end to the affection, You have for me.
There's no end to the affection, You have for me."
These are great and powerful truths that should bring us closer to our Father and healing to the broken hearted. His love for us is endless and fathomless and neverending. He loves us and pursues us with a passion we cannot comprehend These words are meant to heal and restore and breathe life into those that are hurting. They do that, they did that for me. I was hurting. God let me walk through the valley of the shadow of death and I was remaining there. My trust in God was at it's very lowest and I no longer knew how to trust Him. So these words helped me and still help me, and I pray help and heal people for years to come. But as I laid in bed meditating on the words, the emotions, the worship that it evoked, the Spirit spoke another truth.
God loves me. Jesus laid down His life as a perfect offering so that I, and all believers can stand before God whole and blameless. He loves me. I am His daughter. He chose me before the foundations of the world! HE LOVES ME!!!! But He does not worship ME. I must never get to the point where I enter into such a love relationship with Him that I forget that I worship HIM. HE is still MY God. He will still allow the bad things, the hard things, the terrible things to happen in my life to mold me and make me into what HE wants me to be. He never promised me anywhere in scripture that my life would be perfect, happy, easy, or FAIR! He promised that there was a reason for everything, and that He would never leave me, and that NOTHING could ever seperate me from Him. He has a plan for my life that will bring Him glory and honor, and I must always remember and submit to His will for my life.
I'm afraid that we get so caught up in our love affair with God, that we make it all about "ME". The reality is it has always been and should always be about "HIM". My challenge to you today is to spend some time in prayer and ask God to show you anywhere in you walk with Him, that you have made more about you and less about Him. Is there anywhere in your life where it seems God worships you more than you worship Him?
