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My last entry I talked about intimacy with Christ and how I have returned to Him with a longing just to fall deeper in love with Him. Thinking more about that I was talking to a friend of mine the other day and he said something that really struck me. He actually heard what I am about to tell you from another friend of ours. He said “God wants to give us the desires of our heart, why don’t we give Him the desire of His?”

When we look at the overall theme of what Jesus Christ did in his life and death it was all to give God the desire of his heart, us! He wanted us back! The original sin for Adam and Eve caused there to be a division between us and God and we have been living it out ever since! Because of God in His holiness He could not be associated with sin, so for years there was a division. Then God sent his son Jesus Christ to close the division. This is probably not new news to you. But here’s the deal, His plan worked, to a point. He made access possible, but not required for our lives here. He wants us so bad that He made a way for us to be in relationship with Him but doesn’t force us into it like some overruling dictator with a heavy fist forcing people to like and vote for Him. It’s our choice! He loves us so much that He has a longing in His heart for us to love Him back.

I remember when I was a kid I had this dog. It was hound dog named Jessie. I loved that dog. I fed it took care of it cleaned up after it, and as long as I was doing something for it, it was happy. But every time I let it off the chain or out of the cage to play with it, it would take off. It would be gone for weeks at a time even a month one time. I remember trying over and over again to keep the attention of Jessie so that we could just play, but as soon as it hit the threshold of that cage it bolted off into the woods like it had a long overdue meeting with some tree way deep in the woods behind my house. Eventually one day it took off and never came back. I was heart broken, devastated, I never wanted another dog from that day on.

His desire is us!!!!! It is seeing us turn and face Him, talk to Him, hang out with Him, ask Him to be there more clearly, ask Him for direction and wisdom, fall in love with Him! And like Jessie we are prone to running off every time we see a little freedom. The thing is that the most freedom we will ever experience is in His arms holding us close. And He really wants to be with us. You have heard it said that he wants to be with us so bad that He would die for it, well he did and he would do it again if it needed to happen, but it never will because it was finished when He died the first time and rose form the dead three days later.

When we give Him the desires of His heart it opens up the flood gates for Him to pour out from heaven upon us the desires of our hearts.