God Wants a Love Relationship with You

 

God Wants a Love Relationship with You

 

The prophet Jeremiah is amazing to me. He was faithful to proclaim the word of God for forty years & the response of the people was primarily one of rejection. Yet we see a very intimate relationship between Jeremiah & God. It is the kind of relationship that God wanted with all His people & it is the kind of relationship that God wants with us. 

 

Jeremiah 31:3 says, “The Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued My faithfulness to you.”

 

Many people see God as some far-off deity who wants to use us & if we don’t obey, will zap us with a lighting bolt.

 

God is speaking through Jeremiah to the people telling them that their disobedient & sinful behavior has cause it to appear to them that God was far off. But even when they pushed Him away, He still loved them with an everlasting love.

 

God’s love for us is not based on emotion because, if it were, it would be a come & go, an up & down love, & it is not. God’s love is out of His sovereign chose to love us & God never changes so His love for us will never change or fade away or be less than to the max all the time. In Romans 8:38-39 Paul makes it very clear that nothing in all creation, the visible & invisible creation, can separate us from God’s love.

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls is about knowing & experiencing God’s everlasting love for us.

 

God is also faithful. He will always fulfill everything He says. The people of Israel during Jeremiah’s lifetime & for many years before had turned to worship & serve other gods. But God remained faithful & never abandoned His people. 2 Timothy 2:13 tells that even if we are faithless, God will be faithful. And in Hebrews 13:5 we are told that God will never leave or forsake us.

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls is about living our lives knowing that God is faithful, He will fulfill all that He says & He will not forsake us.

 

Jeremiah also reveals to us that God invites us to call out to Him. Jeremiah 33:3 says, “Call out to Me and I will answer you and will tell you great and hidden things.”

 

 

God invites to call out to Him & He promises that He will answer us. Prayer is not talking to the celling & prayer is not talking at God. Prayer is talking to & connecting with the Almighty God of all creation & He will answer us.

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls is about calling out to God in prayer & knowing that God hears & that He will answer.

 

God says that He tells us great things & mighty things that are new to us. God will speak to us about who He is, His ways, & His purposes so that we can know Him & His will.

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls is about experiencing God as He reveals to us who He is, His ways, & His purposes.

 

1 John 4:19 says that we love Jesus because He first loved us. Jesus pursues us because He loves us & through His love for us, we come to love Him. In Luke 15 Jesus tells the parable of a shepherd who had one of his flock of one hundred wander off. The shepherd leaves the ninety-nine & pursues the one lost sheep. Jesus is the shepherd & we are the one lost sheep who He pursues.

 

So, God is pursuing a love relationship with you. We can know & experience the relationship that God created us to have with Him by surrendering our lives to Jesus as our Savior & Lord.

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls.

Joe