God has set eternity in the hearts of men - Ecclesiastes 3:11
How engrained on our hearts is romance! We each desire a perfect other to be one with; to be human is to feel this. It is a central part of the heart. We as human beings are meant to live married. Like in Isaiah 62:4-5, we are meant to live one with God, one with each other and with the beauty in the natural world. We are always suppose to be in the family of God with all of our brothers and sisters, with our Father, with the Holy Spirit, and our Spouse Jesus. Life is meant to be worshipping him, one with him in deep spiritual intimacy at all times. How wonderful it will be to one day be staying up late with God at a coffeehouse in the New Jerusalem.
Jesus came here to give us good news. Not just "good" news, but news that is really, really good. Eg if you heard that Congress was discussing a bill for something that might decrease your taxes by 0.5% if you might certain "criteria" and that there was a 50% chance of it getting passed, well that's "good" news. But if you got a check for $750 in the mail because you did your taxes wrong and got a refund and could now finally go buy a new laptop, now that's good news. It's the same with Jesus and the Kingdom of God. Good news isn't that we get to sing hymns in heaven, good news is that we get to be in a rapturous romance with God, who is madly in love with us, desiring incredible intimacy with us at all times and wanting to whisk us away on a honeymoon we'll never forget and giving us every single desire our heart has ever had and never being away from our loved ones forever; now that's good news :) Heaven begins with the 24 elders, the 4 living creatures, and a plethora of angels worshipping God (Revelation 4-6). It ends with us, his bride, living together with him forever here on earth. It begins in an imperial kingdom, but it ends with the two lovers getting married. If your heart's desire is to be on a coffee date at 10 pm with God and your spouse talking about everything and anything, that's what is coming :) The first great commandment is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. Sacred romance with Jesus. Check! (even though we will never love him as much as we should here on earth) The second great commandment is to love our neighbors as ourselves. We have to tell everyone that God is so in love with them that he desires an intimate relationship with everyone and wants to give them their heart's desire in a perfect romance with him. Jesus coming here and asking us to marry him was the biggest marriage proposal ever to give everyone in the world their heart's desires. Which is just to have one Person to love as their God forever. And that is Jesus Christ.
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