It's been over a month since I last blogged :( I really felt it was time for me to back off for awhile on blogging and whether that was God or me, I'm not sure. Me and God went through some interesting times. But everything is wonderful, as always :) I had gone through a dry time with God and my wife said I did things differently, just normal things in the day because I physically missed him. It was one of the sweetest things to hear. But, I do wish I had blogged more and am ready to begin again!
I was so taken tonight by how beautiful God is; Yahweh God is gorgeous. And through his Son Jesus who came in the flesh and died for us, we can live a romance with him. One that is forever and neverending. I love the dialogue we can have with our Beloved, if only our hearts are open to him and worshiping him with all we are
'How beautiful you are and how pleasing, O Love, with your delights!'
'I belong to my lover, and his desire is for me.'
'...at our door is every delicacy, new and old, that I have stored up for you, my lover.'
Song of Songs 7:6,10,13
He desires a romance with us, one where we are so captivated by him that the only thing we can do is completely ache down to our muscles and our bones, physically aching to be with him, while we wait for his return. And in the aching we worship him and love him and desire him.
How wonderful it would be, truly, to just to do what we want to hear him whisper in our ears: "Come, my lover, let us go to the countryside, let us spend the night in the villages. Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vines have budded, if their blossoms have opened, and if the pomegranates are in bloom-there I will give you my love." Song of Songs 7:11-12 (NIV)
It's like a couple running away to a cottage B&B in Martha's Vineyard, drinking a glass of wine at sunset watching the Atlantic settle into nighttime with a fire going in the fireplace in the background with the crackling of the wood that's burning and the cold easterly breeze coming in over the porch and then drawing the blinds on a nighttime outside that gives love and passion new meaning and then waking up and loving each other and then going out for a walk in the nearby vineyard and knowing each other and loving each other and driving out to the Berkshires mountains and sharing a picnic and holding each other and living fully in God and then coming back and doing everything again in the next beautiful New England day.
He wants to be our Everything, not our something we give 20 minutes a day too. He wants true worship, he wants our hearts to be fully his. Not anyone else's, nor anything else's. It's the reason he tells us to pray without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:17) because he never wants to not hear us talking to him and telling him how much we love him and how crazy we are about him and how much we desire him and how we badly want and need him all around us and to never be away from us ever again and to just jump into his embrace and raise our hands up around him and pull him close never to let go.
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