The Nature of God's Love

As a mom, I can only give only one child my full, exclusive attention and not even then can I continually attend to that one child. I must sleep and work and make preparations for that child, which divide my attention. Even though I would give my life for my child, I am not capable of more than intermittent exclusive attention to my child. But no so with God, He can give you fully His attention continually without taking away from any of His other children, because He is God.

I can hold 2 (or more!) in my lap, but my attention is finite and can only process so much of and for each child. But it isn't like that with God. First of all no human could live through full, total God attention. Remember Moses? (Exodus 20) How he had to be hidden in a rock's crevice just to view a portion of God? (Exodus 33:21) Secondly, a nano second of His attention is equal to more than full human attention because He is able to somehow (in that unknown God-way) give us fully his attention. He is able to attend fully to each -- all the time -- every time.

He wants to attend to us. He waits for us to turn to Him. You can talk to Him non-stop without tiring Him out. There is no thing too small or too large for Him. It just is not humanly possible to wear Him out. Think of it. He wouldn't the All Powerful God if we, individually or collectively could overwhelm Him. So talk to Him -- about everything!

Perfection

After a true experience of turning from sin and accepting the forgiveness Christ offers us, there will always be a journey of growth, the evidence of which is not just obeying God but a desire to be odedient to God. (II Peter 1:3-9)

Perfection will never be possible, for only God is perfect but we can perfect areas of our lives, or our very beings. That perfecting is ongoing, just by the nature of the word. Only God is perfect. Period.

We can never really arrive at perfection and stop. To persue perfection, we must persist. Persist in obeying God. Is this making you tired just reading it? Great! That's wonderful if it is.

You begin to see how perfection for us is our journey. AND you begin to see that achieving it is to tap into perfect perfection! That is, tapping into Him. The theme here is "Give up!"

Whoa.... what? Oh yes, give up to Him who is perfection. Give your struggle up to Him and it will be perfectly perfect!

If your desire is perfection or as close to it as possible, let the perfect God take over your life. Through no effort of your own, you will be as perfect as it is possible for God to make you! Oh, what a plan! It's no plan. Just surrender and seek Him and be about His business and you will have more fun and get closer to perfection than anything you could design or imagine!

Grace and peace to you all.

Start Your Quiet Time Today

Try starting with just 5 minutes. Just wake up 5 minutes early. Start your day with 5 minutes of grateful praise and prayer for all He has given you.