I say …<\/p>\n
I say I love you and think you are fantastic, and I want to develop a meaningful relationship with you.<\/p>\n
I tell other people how wonderful you are and how they should also get to know you better, that you are the most important person in my life.\u00a0 I even tell myself that.\u00a0 In fact, I have done so enough that I am really beginning to believe it.<\/p>\n
But what really seems to happen is …<\/p>\n
When things are going well, life is good, fun is happening, I don’t really want you interrupting my life, not too involved but close enough that you can watch out for me just in case.\u00a0 So comforting.<\/p>\n
Kind of like a “little red riding hood” relationship, not too hot, not too cold.\u00a0 Just right!<\/p>\n
I don’t talk to you very often anymore in any meaningful way.\u00a0 Quick stuff, boilerplate niceties, but very spiritual sounding, after all, we have a deep relationship.<\/p>\n
Pretty much our relationship is mostly words though, talk … lip action if you will.\u00a0 Not just any words though.\u00a0 I mean, I would never dream of giving anyone else the credit and honor I give to you as I speak of you.<\/p>\n
But that’s about it … words.\u00a0 And some other “going through the motions” stuff.\u00a0 But mostly words, but really good words.\u00a0 High praise as they say down south.<\/p>\n
Until …<\/p>\n
Until something goes\u00a0 wrong with my nice little life. I get bad news from the doctor.\u00a0 Or I need money.\u00a0 Or the people around me are booger-heads.\u00a0 Then I want you to jump in the middle of my problems.<\/p>\n
Sometimes I need to remind you that this is the part where you ride in on your white horse and fix everything.\u00a0 No, not the things you think need fixing.\u00a0 I have a to-do list for you.\u00a0 I call that praying.
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If the Bible has one message, it is about our love relationship to God.\u00a0 I would say that I don’t mean to preach here, but I do.<\/p>\n
What are we thinking?\u00a0 No one could ever love you or me the way God loves us, and we sometimes don’t give him the time of day.<\/p>\n
When things are going well we forget him.\u00a0 But when trouble comes we run to him.\u00a0 I would have a really hard time maintaining a relationship with someone like that.<\/p>\n
Thankfully, I am not God.\u00a0 And thankfully God speaks to us in patience and mercy and grace.\u00a0 That is how I continue on the path.\u00a0 The enemy accuses me of horrible things, and you know what?\u00a0 Sometimes he is exactly right.\u00a0 I am as bad or worse than he says.<\/p>\n
But I keep going.\u00a0 Keep trudging ahead.\u00a0 One foot in front of the other because I believe that what Jesus did at Calvary took care of the worst of the worst of Dave Scott.\u00a0 And Satan can accuse and mock and ridicule, and sometimes, and even often, be right, but I don’t stay on the path of faith because of anything I have done except to believe in what Jesus Son of God has done for me.<\/p>\n
I approach the throne of grace with confidence for one reason.\u00a0 His name is Jesus!<\/p>\n
And this amazes me.\u00a0 God loves me with a forever love.\u00a0 I love him as a weak little earthling.\u00a0 And God thinks it’s great!<\/p>\n
Praise be to this God, this King, this Savior of the world!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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