Daddy

I want to sit at your feet, drink from he cup in your hand, lay back against you and breathe, feel your heart beat. This love is so deep, it's more than I can stand. I melt in your peace, it's overwhelming.

I always loved this song. The idea of leaning back against God and hearing his heart beat. Any guy I have ever truly loved (My dad, brothers, even some friends) I have done this with simply as a pure form of love and the expression of it. If you are a girl (I would venture that this applies to guys as well but I am not one so I wouldn't know) you know what I mean. I really hope you have been blessed to have soeone in your life that can be that "Daddy" like portrayance of God to you.

Turns out this isn't just a modern deal, or even an unrealistic thing. The disciples even did this. The HOLY GOD allowed the disciples to lean up against him and hear his heart beat. It was a simple expression of love and connection. "One of them. the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to him. Simon Peter motioned to this disciple and said, 'Ask him which one he means'. Leaning back against Jesus, he asked Him, "Lord, who is it?"

This is the kind of relationship that the disciples had with God. Lately I have been struggling to not focus myself on only one aspect of God. I used to be so wrapped up in the love of God. And recently it has been the wrath and awesome might; when in reality it has to be all of those characteristics together. We have to realize what a mighty war we are in and how much God had to pay to win us back from the enemy. Because as we are born sinfully... Satan own us. It takes a high price, the price of a human life, to ransom any one of us. God faught long and hard for us. But God also loves us. In fact that's why he faught so hard. He loved us so much. He wanted us to have abundant life next to him.

I praise God that he has given me an earthly daddy who can begin to portray this concept to me and has all my life. God is that personal God. God is that righteous God. God is wrathful. But better... God is love.