Qualities that Speak of God ( ladies ! )

 

Qualities That Speak of God

Can there be any doubt that God wants to be sought after?

The first and greatest of all commands is to love him

  ²⁹“The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.<sup value='[a]’>30Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. Mark 12:29-30.

³⁶“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” ³⁷Jesus replied: ” ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ ³⁸This is the first and greatest commandment.Matt. 22:36-38.

He wants us to love him. To seek him with all our heart. A woman longs to be sought after, too, with the whole heart of her pursuer. God longs to be desired. Just as a woman longs to be desired. This is not some weakness or insecurity on the part of a woman, that deep yearning to be desired. God feels the same way. Remember the story of Martha and Mary? Mary chose God, and Jesus said that was what he wanted. “Mary has chosen what is better” (Luke 10:42). She chose me.

Life changes dramatically when romance comes into our lives. Christianity changes dramatically when we discover that it, too, is a great romance. That God yearns toshare a life of beauty, intimacy, and adventure with us.

“I have loved you with an everlasting love” (Jer. 31:3). This whole world was made for romance-the rivers and the glens, the meadows and the beaches. Flowers, music, a kiss. But we have a way of forgetting all that, losing ourselves in work and worry. Eve-God’s message to the world in feminine form-invites us to romance. Through her, God makes romance a priority of the universe.

So God endows Woman with certain qualities that are essential to relationship, Qualities that Speak of God. She is inviting. She is vulnerable. She is tender. She embodies mercy. She is also fierce and fiercely devoted. As the old saying goes, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” That’s just how God acts when he isn’t chosen. “I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God who will not share your affection with any other god!” (Ex. 20:5 NLT). A woman’s righteous jealousy speaks of the jealousy of God for us.

Tender and inviting, intimate and alluring, fiercely devoted.

Where to begin with all this?

How can you not be moved when reading this? Especially women? How can you not feel that deep desire to be desired? But desired in a way that’s honest, pure, and godly. Not the desired way that is sneaky, dirty and dangerous. That’s not the adventure I’m talking about. 

I’m talking about the one that tugs at your heart for you to get outside and go for a walk… maybe to get the exercise, or was it because God wanted to show you the beautiful sunset He made for you? Did you even recognize it? Or were you too busy planning the week away, or complaining about the day’s events to truly “take in” what He had for you in that moment?>

It’s the adventure and that spontinaity of God when He shows you something in a new light that you have never seen before, and there is NO WAY it could be anyone but GOD, that intimate conversation that He has with you that goes straight to your heart. That touches the core of your being. A place that you 1.) may not know exists or 2.) haven’t allowed anyone in to, to really find out where it is and what it feels like there.

He knows it exists, because HE created it. He wired us this way WOMEN! Embrace it. 

There is balance to it all though. And the balance comes FIRST when we have allowed God into our Hearts to do the work, repair, and captivating of it.

                              FIRST – FIRST – FIRST

                           Then. Then. And only then…

Will He give you more to take on, more hearts to love, more love to absorb, and more love to allow to flow out of you. THEN He will give you the desires of your heart. What He desires for your heart to desire. Not what YOU think you need, want, or deserve…

You will wonder… with awe, amazement, humility and passion “where all this love comes from? and What am I going to do with it all?” And you will FEEL the difference and remember where your heart used to be. God will remind you of the past, not because He wants to shame you, and make you feel bad for the way you once were; or the way you treated yourself, and others. 

This is the kindness that leads to repentance. This is the everlasting, steadfast and enduring love of our Father. 

These are the Qualities that Speak of MY GOD!… and yours too!

                          If you LET HIM!