This is our love story with God. God wants to know if you’re in love with Jesus. In love with Him like He is with you? It takes two to be in love, remember?
They have other loves just as important or more so? What if they ignore you sometimes, talk to you only when they feel like it or when they need something from you? We would call them “NOT in love”.
When love is real it’s deep and solid between two people who enjoy talking together, laughing together and even at times crying together. When you’re in love, people can’t wait to be with each other just to be in each other’s presence. Where even silence is comfortable. If you know you are loved you are not afraid when you’re apart because you are confident your love is thinking of you as much as you are thinking of them.
So it is with love. And, so it is with God. And, so it is with prayer.
This is our love story with God. God wants to know if you’re in love with Jesus. In love with Him like He is with you? It takes two to be in love, remember?
In His last love letter to us, Jesus has tried hard to show us His unconditional love in our relationship with Him. He stands at the heart’s door and knocks...even calls lovingly out to us. (Revelation 3:20) Can it be many of us are deaf to His voice?
Like a lover in the dark of night searching for His love He calls out, “If” if anyone can hear my voice please answer me! Let me know you’re there! Let me know you hear me! Please don’t keep silent...I want to be with you!
Sadly, as any love story goes, a person cannot be in love by themselves. Sooner or later, they have to turn and walk away with a broken heart. Never will the other person realize how much they lost. The joy and happiness they could have experienced with One who has loved them so deeply. Never will they find a love so true anywhere.
Dear friends, God has been waiting. Knocking. Calling to us a lifetime.
Isaiah 55:3 says, “Incline your ear, and come unto Me: hear and your soul shall live;...” Are your ears tuned to listen for His voice today? Do you believe talking to Jesus is worth your time?
He is inviting you into a love story. He wants your heart--and it has to be your heart. Won’t you talk with Him today? He won’t wait forever you know, He can’t. Time is running out.
If you were wondering about H2C=L, it’s a simple formula. Two Hearts Connecting equals Love.
Lesa J. Budd is Wisconsin Conference’s prayer coordinator.
