I am not dating. I am married.
There are so many times I have thought about my relationship with the Father as if I was just dating Him. I never fully wanted to make the commitment. I never wanted to sacrifice. I never wanted to lose the things I have come to love very much in this life, such as my family. I gave the Lord what I wanted to give him and nothing more.
The Lord took me this month back to a moment in my life that I wanted to avoid. I avoided it because I didn’t think it would ever be redeemed or I feared the pain of remembering the loss all over again. It was a moment in which I knew or so I thought I knew that I was in love with some one. As I was sitting with the Father I soon realized I was no longer in Cambodia. I was within this memory, but the only thing different was that the Father was with me. We were sitting together and pressing into the love that we had for one another. The Lord proved my thoughts wrong again. He showed me the power that He has to take ever thing and tune it to His goodness. He reminded me that He is a God who redeems everything.
I fell in love with my savior this month. I realized that the Lord doesn’t just want intimacy with us. If there is such a thing past intimacy then He wants it. He wants everything. He wants our hearts to fall in love with Him, to thirst and hunger for him, to be desperate for Him. Man am I desperate.
You can’t be married to this world and it’s possessions, and still be married to your creator. You can’t be married to your family, your job, your car, or anything else and still be married to Him. It doesn’t work that way. Scripture says it like this, “No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate our the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.” (Matthew 6:24)
In order to get married you have to choose and you have to be fully committed. You are giving up some things yes, but you won’t miss out on anything. The things that you once thought important will in time pass away. You will begin to thank the Father for the things that you had to let go of, maybe these things were not bad to begin with but they will be nothing in comparison to your relationship with Him.
