On Mare's post below..:
AHHHH! I love this more and more! I read it the other day rather hurriedly. But today I've been so incredibly bored and revisited it without any distractions and it just blows my mind.
God is good to us regardless. By him giving us somebody it is such an incredible blessing to show us how much he loves us.
I have a hard time with this sometimes because I feel like my view of love is sometimes selfish - well it's almost always ultimately selfish with a facade and an intellectual understanding that I'm supposed to be selfless. I'm only recently learning how to truly love completely selflessly.
My counselor told me that it's a psychological theory/belief (not sure what you would call it) that our perception of God is a mirror of our perception of our parents. To me my parents have always loved me - I would never doubt that. But their love seems ultimately self-directed. I feel if they truly loved me they would say, "We love you, now do what you want to do. We had our time with you. We've watched you grow and helped you along the way. Now it's your turn to take the reins."
I feel like that's what God is telling us. And not only is telling us but wants us to do. And He gives us awesome consolation prizes along the way. What would the world be like if God kept all of us to Himself?
when i heard it on the radio, i got swept away and didnt realize i was even in traffic.
ReplyDeletealong the lines of the parallel with parents/God... watch this.. even if only up through 8 mins through.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggLQwxS-rcI
learning to reshape our dysfunctional perspectives of God is one of the best things we can do! God wants us to choose, regardless if our families want us to adhere to some system/standard, God does not want to choose for us the same way our parents may have. He wants us to trust and to take risks in faith.
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