Have you ever been deeply and truly in Love? So in love that your heart aches when you are away from your lover? At times, completely incapable of giving anything else your full attention because you find yourself daydreaming about your next encounter with your lover. Perhaps you have gotten a letter from your lover and with great excitement you opened it and began drinking in every word with pure joy. . .

My friends, God loves us in this way and even greater! He has moved all of heaven and earth to restore our relationship to Him; Breaking his own heart by sending his son to suffer unspeakably to pay our debt and restore us to the Father. So that we might turn back and have access to Him as we did in the beginning when He walked in love with us in the garden.

How do I know this? Because he wrote it all down in a letter to us. In fact, he wrote us a collection of letters and crafted the bible to point us back to him and to keep us from great harm. Oh, his ferocious love for us knows no bounds! His letters contain this incredible love story that seems at times, too good to be true of a creator so in love with the created that even though he is betrayed over and over, he has given all to make a way for us to turn back to Him. And for the ones that turn back, he has already forgiven and restored us. With no memory of betrayal, only deep love, protection and intimacy, He is with us, for us and in us! We, the created that turn to him, begin walking and talking in relationship with our first love, the creator!

In this life, there are so many things to explore and experience. But if we do not recognize our creator and His great love for us and turn back to him, all is literally lost. We miss out on our very purpose and our greatest love! Please. Don’t be so distracted or pre-occupied that you miss out on the one thing that matters for all eternity. Relationship with God.

The next time you open your bible, recognize that it is His journal packed with letters from your one true lover. Read it with excitement, anticipation and the expectation that God will speak to you, and meet you in that place. Because He is desperately trying to have a relationship with you. Recognizing His love for you makes all the difference!

Don't just read but drink it in....