Quote 2...

Quotes 2... I continue to think about the common practice of quoting…lyrics, poems, some well known person or author…a line taken from a movie, or just out of an ordinary conversation…

Today I heard from a friend who felt like nobody cared really…unless they wanted something. I think we probably all feel that way from time to time. Used and abused. We can respond by making our heart harder, deciding to not care….or maybe even having a pity party, which I’m usually guilty of.

I was troubled that my friend felt like that today. He knows in his heart of heart that it’s simply not true…but sometimes we just need to hear it from those who do care, from those who have no strings attached to their love for us.

As I thought about it, I remembered a movie I watched once.

One of the scenes portrayed a young man talking to God. He was asking God how he could get someone to love him. He had lost his girlfriend, and had tried roping the moon for her along with all kinds of other tricks and tactics, only to have her refuse him.

“How do you make somebody love you?” the guy asked of God.

“I don’t know…”, answered God.

That is so profound to me.

If God chose to force us to love Him, love would no longer be love would it?

We get to pick…. Love Him, or not love Him. He won’t force us.

“… I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him and he with Me.

To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me in My throne, even as I also overcame and have sat down with My Father in His throne.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. (Rev. 3:20-22)