I was looking through my pictures from Africa, and these two struck me. First of all these two pictures just make my heart happy, but on a deeper level they challenged me to think about some things.
Ive already shared that in many ways marriage has challenged me to truly evaluate my relationship with God. In the book ive been reading, Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas, he talks about two different view points on marriage. First, there is the human-centered view of marriage which says that we stay put as long as our desires and expectations are being met, and then there is a Godcentered view of marriage where we preserve marriage because it brings glory to God and points a sinful world to a reconciling Creator.
As I think about these two different view points it makes me reflect on what my relationship with God is like. I so often run after God when I need something from Him. I know that at times we all do. If we dont feel like things are going the way we want them to, if we need help, if we are struggling, if we are discerning where to go -- these are all things that help us to chase after God or sometimes to run away from God. The point is when our needs are not being met we have this desire in us to fight to meet those needs. BUT, in reality the only thing that will truly ever fulfill our God given needs is the God who gave us those needs. He deeply desires for us to be by his side no matter what because his love for us and our steadfast relationship with Him are the only things that point a sinful world to Him! More importantly, being at the feet of Jesus is the only thing that truly allows our hearts to be content and for us as his creation to truly be filled.
These pictures remind me to run and sit at the feet of Jesus, and to chase after him with all thats within me because I desire to be near him with a true desperation! I know he is the only one who has absoultly everything I need!
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