Are you ever tempted wander from the love, faith and hope that God has shown you? I think this is a huge temptation each and every day. We live in a noisy sin saturated world that also filled with so much good. Our sin primed life can wander down any rabbit trail. Most of all, I doubt at times if God really cares. Is He paying attention. A trickle down result is that I doubt His love for me as an individual person. I fire up my self sufficient independent attitude and neglect surrendering the day or an issue of the day to Him. But He always welcomes me back into His embrace.
“While some might contend that our core problem as humans is that we think too highly of ourselves, I’d argue that most of us live with an underlying sense of worthlessness, alienation, and disillusionment. We achieve, trying to prove our worth. We grasp for love. We clamor for meaning. Here we struggle, wounded, weary, and wandering, as the riptide quickly pulls us away from Home, out into the storming seas where we’re tossed about once again, mired in the traumatic tumult. I’ve never known anyone who hasn’t wrestled with deep questions of worth, belonging, and purpose. Even those who’ve been loved deeply and held securely eventually find their way east of Eden, wandering in the wilderness, questioning God’s goodness and their “enoughness” in God.” - Excerpt, Healing What’s Within by Chuck DeGroat
“As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you: Jesus deliberately loved His disciples according to the way God the Father loved Him. We know that Jesus loved His disciples by teaching them, protecting them, guiding them, sacrificially serving them, and using His power and authority to do these things. In some way, the Father also did all those things for Jesus, and Jesus did them for the disciples after that pattern.
The love of Jesus for His people is so remarkable, that this is the analogy or illustration that He must make. He didn’t say, “I love you as a mother loves her baby” or “I love you the way a husband loves his wife” or “I love you the way the soldier loves his buddy” or even “I love you the way an addict loves his dope.” The only way He could paint the picture was to use the love of the Father for the Son.“ - Based on The Enduring Word Bible Commentary by David Guzik.
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