God's Ambition.

The Bible has often been called a love letter from God.

I want to start today's blog with a poem I wrote some time ago. It is called, "The Love that loved me."


                                                              

If I knew of God and

never tried to seek Him.

If I heard Him call,

and simply carried on.

If I broke His laws,

though written all around me.

And in my troubles

I merely soldiered on.

If in my heart I

stubbornly refused Him,

relying on my strength,

and went about my ways.

Then, I have failed to love

the Love that loved me.

Then, all I ever did I did in vain,

and squandered all my days,



One day someone tried to lay a snare for our Lord and asked him, "Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest? He said to them, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment."  (Matthew 22:36-37)

Those of us who remember learning catechism as children, may remember the first, or one of the first questions we were asked and were made to remember by heart. Who created you? God created me. Why did God create you? God created me to love Him and serve Him in this world, and to be with Him forever in the next.

Very simple questions with profound answers that ought to give us all a strong sense of purpose for living our finite number of days on this earth. Yet very often the noises and the passing attractions of the world distract us and leave us lost in an aimless fog that slowly but surely separates us from the real reason for being put here in the first place.

Perhaps in the last two thousand years there has never been a generation of Christians so educated and knowledgeable in the ways of the world, and yet so unlearned and infantile in the ways of God. We have collectively lost our sense of direction, and are wondering aimlessly, dazzled by our endless pursuit of earthly happiness which leaves us empty and spiritually poor.

One of the primary reasons we do not seek to love God with all our hearts is that we simply do not know that God desires union with us. God is so madly in love with each and everyone of us that "He did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for the benefit of us all." ( Romans 8:32). He wants us to be united with Him in everything that we do. "Then you shall be my people and I will be your God." (Ez 36: 28).

A writer of love letters is a writer in love, Love letter writers reveal the secret desires of their hearts, their ambition, their reason for acting the way they do. This is God's driving ambition for us, that we shall be His people and He will be our God. That we will all live happily ever after.

If all of us knew this beautiful secret, then there would be no crimes, no suicides, no addictions, no emptiness. No squandering of our days.