“I just love God.” Though these were the only four words in a message from a sweet friend early this morning, I can hear it as if she said it right in my ear.
And her reason on this particular day?
Hope.
Pure. Simple. Genuine.
I got up and sat at the kitchen counter to drink my morning tea, and the words of Jeremiah 23:24 took up residence in my heart.
"'Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?' declares the Lord. 'Do not I fill heaven and earth?' declares the Lord."
Even as the sun was just beginning to rise this morning, and life still waited in slumber... hope surrounded.
For it is not an impersonal God that waits for me each morning, One who holds Himself aloof. distant. remote. locked away in some mystery-held box.
No, my God~ He calls. He woos. He captures my heart. He holds ME, even as He holds the entire world.
And there I find space to rest.
My God who made the one-way street a very personal, intimate two-way street, so we could meet each other.
I can almost see His arms stretch out wide, toward me... and there is the hope.
For I am never out of His reach.
and I found that this morning...this dark, before-the-kids-get-up, quiet morning... I was whispering,
"I just love you too, God."
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