Quiet Time a.k.a Mini Sermon

Isaiah chapter 32 verse 38 "They will be my people and I will be their God. And I will give them one heart and one purpose to worship me forever, for their own good and for the good of all their decendants. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good for them. I will put a desire in their hearts to worship me, and they will never leave me. I will find joy doing good for them and will faithfully and wholeheartedly replant them in this land."

You know God's one goal, that "We become his people, and He be our God..." Many times, our thoughts and perceptions of God-People relationships turn out different from what God sees it as. In many different places, people share different perceptions of God. Just reading this verse alone, to someone, it may seem as though God wants us to submit our control to Him so that He can be God over us...Furthermore, God says He wants us to worship Him forever...

Now is God a self-centered God?...

a relationship with God goes more than just submission to a higher will... a higher power...

read into the lines...
*hold this thought in mind...

Now, see God as an eager God, a really eager one, desperate to reconcile a relationship with Man once again... just like a courtship... to do everything possible to seek our approval for His love. *but as though our approval really matters? To God, it does... It's our approval of His love for us... I mean, we're just mere humans and why should it even matter in the first place! But that's what God is like... He seeks our approval and does all the good things He can to gain that approval, to start a relationship with Him. Isn't it wonderful? the verse describes it as a joy to God... *but as though we deserve it at all... for Him to so eagerly want to do all the good things He can for us.
and You know something? this tells me a lot more about God... and who God is...

God is more people-centered than we'd ever imagine Him to be... we are like the focus of God's love and attention,

and amongst all of creation...

just special.