God’s love does not rain down upon you and I from Heaven. We do not drink water from the sky. We drink water from a spring. Likewise, we receive the love of God from a fountain. Now, there are many fountains, but not all fountains are springing with the love of God. God has made my fountain pure. Through the blood of Jesus Christ my heart has been washed white as snow. I am a fountain flowing with the pure love of God, because God has washed me and made me clean. The words that I write to you are not my words; they are His words. They are words of truth and of life, because they are the words of Jesus.
When anyone takes my words and causes them to mean something different than what I wrote, they are not simply manipulating my own words. They are making God out to be a liar, because they are His words, not mine.
God is not obsessed with you, Bee! And neither am I!
God is a jealous God. God created you and He loves you. He has given you a free will to choose as you would. Why would you not choose life? He is holding out His hand. He is the God of all salvation. He is the God of all comfort. He is truth. He is light. He is the creator and the source of true and pure love. He is life. He gave His own life for you. He does not want you to worship the idols of the world. He wants you to worship Him, your creator. He is a jealous God.
But you say, “I don’t worship any idols?” Oh! But you do! Everything you covet you worship. You desire the praise of the men and the women around you, in your life. You want to be “somebody.” You want to have a nice car and a nice home. You want to eat delicious meals and drink tasty cocktails. You want to travel and experience faraway places. You want to be entertained. You spend all of your time thinking about these worldly pleasures.
All of these desires are things that are given to you and I by God. God wants you and I to have good and beautiful things in our lives, but He does not want us to covet them. They are all things that He created. God does not want you and I to worship His creations. He wants you and I to worship Him!
He wants you and I to live!
When we turn our back on God and we fail to recognize Him and to praise Him for all his blessings, we are not living. We are dead in trespasses and sin. The only way we can have true life is through Jesus Christ.
This is not obsession!
I have never had any desire to possess you. God has never had any desire to possess you. If God wanted to possess you, he would. He is God. There is nothing that could ever stop God from possessing you. But God does not possess you, does He?
Does a mother want to keep her baby in her womb and hold on to her baby forever? No, she wants her baby to grow and to be born a spirit of its own.
Bee, God wants to give unto you! He wants to give you living water. He wants to give to you life! He wants to give you a new heart! He wants to give you salvation from your own sin and iniquity.
This is what I want for you, Bee! I want you to have life and joy and peace. I will do anything that God commands me in order to see to it that you obtain it. I will gladly forfeit my own life for that purpose. But nothing I do can give you eternal life. Only Jesus can give you eternal life. All I am trying to do is to lead you to His outstretched hand.
Take hold of His hand and live, Bee!
Take His hand.
