I’m not a fighter, I’m a lover

Warm fuzzies or cold pricklies? That’s the terms I was taught in grade school for my emotions. For those of us who approach our connection to God with our heart, we seek to experience His love, closeness and a deepening intimacy with our Creator and Rescuer. We earnestly desire a sense of relational depth and the genuine emotions that accompany that personal connection with another. Lovers, gauge their relationship with God with emotional language and perceived closeness.The Bible reminds us that God is love and that His primary posture to us is that of a Father longing for the return of his runaway children. Home is where we are meant to be and we are lost and homesick until we return. Mercy, compassion and grace flow from a heart enlarged by an encounter with the Great Heart. Jesus truly died of a broken heart on the cross. The caution here is to not rely on the outward manifestations of a romantic or slightly idealized connection with God. If our emotions are not rallied or heightened when we take time to meet with God in prayer, reading the Word, or journaling, we should not be dismayed or saddened. We need not ride the emotional rollercoaster with Our Father. He never changes and Paul observed, “God is closer than you think.”