Love (God) is unstoppable!

“Get on your knees and dig down deep
You can do what you think is impossible…

Love is unstoppable.” –Rascal Flatts

I often interchange the word LOVE with God. Most of the time, it fits quite well. With LOVE all things are possible and with GOD all things are possible. Lately, I have felt like I’ve been stuck at love in my fruit of the Spirit journey. How can I move on to joy and peace if I’m stuck at love? Then, I thought…hmmm… love is a BIG thing…God is love and God is HUGE!!! Is it so bad to be stuck on God? I think I’ll always be stuck there, because not only is love so hard to understand, so is God. He is a mystery always to be curious and hungry for. So why do I feel stuck?

I’ve really been feeling stuck because I have not gotten very far in my journey of finding and loving myself this year. But how can you really find yourself and really love yourself without seeing yourself through God’s eyes? How can you see through God’s eyes if you aren’t really digging deep and getting on your knees enough to really be intimate with God? Intimacy brings deep understanding and connections. It’s not easy and leaves you very vulnerable. I guess I haven’t felt like I want to do the work and then put myself out there to get hurt. That’s messed up though! God isn't going to harm me. Being vulnerable will hurt, sure! It won’t kill me, only make me stronger. No one ever said life was going to be easy but we are told we aren’t alone. I don’t even think God intends for intimacy to be hard either. I think we as humans make it a TON more hard than it should be.

So that leaves me searching for ways to create the mood for intimacy with God. A great friend of mine recommended the book Crazy Love by Francis Chan. I’ve started reading that and so far I’m thinking it’s the PERFECT book for where I’m at right now. So we shall see!

Here is one more thing I want to share. Something that may not seem amazing to others but to me I felt it was very significant. Hopefully the links will work. If they do, my hope is that you really feel the relation between the two characters as if it were an interaction between you and God. Humor me here.

Today, I was watching Little Mermaid (with Megs) and I couldn’t help but relate it to God and my own spirituality. See, I’ve been a little like Ariel, rebellious against God, my father, wanting to do what I desire regardless of what He thinks. Not caring what the outcome will be and how much my desire and love for other things above God really, really hurts God. God is a jealous God and doesn’t want me to have things in my life that separate me from his full attention because when I am unfocused and unconnected that is when I get myself into trouble. Also, he wants my heart. He wants to destroy these desired things even if it does bring me temporary pain. He feels saddened by causing me pain but as a loving father He has to do what is best. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2invqrwelg

However, I never seem to learn my lesson. I keep thinking my ways are better and what I want is best for me. Yet even through it all, through all the sadness, all the hurt and all the trouble I get myself into, God is still there to save me from it. Most importantly He was willing to sacrifice Himself through His Son to pay for the consequences of the trouble I get myself into.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy7D9YeR2F0&NR=1

So why do I beat myself up for what I do? Yes, I know I have to take some sort of responsibility for myself but beyond that I have a LOVING God that has already forgiven me. Did I stress LOVING enough? After all the rebellion and all the forgiveness, God still does want to bless me. He wants to give me the desires of my heart.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zox2BkWmwnk

I need to stop getting in the way of an unstoppable, crazy love. I need to seek it and go with the flow of that love. I need to stop resisting. I need to seek God through all my pain, sorrow, sadness, happiness, joy and excitement. Although I have deep desires for things in my life, I don’t know what is best for me. God knows the desires of my heart and I’m sure wants to bless me with things that will bring much joy. I’m sure pure joy brings him much satisfaction, just like we all get satisfaction when we really bless someone with a gift/words that they really wanted to have/hear. So God doesn’t need my help to “shop” for those desires. They will be great surprises and gifts if I let Him pick them out and give them to me in the PERFECT and most appropriate timing. He knows what color goes best on me. He knows what texture feels the most enjoyable. He knows what scent or what flavor appeals to me the most. He knows all these things better than I even do!!! I could really have the best blessings ever if I just let God shower me with His love. His love is unstoppable!