What does God really think?
If God would answer just one prayer I have for our church, what would it be? Today I thought I’d let you know.
There’s a scene in the TV show Modern Family (don’t judge me) that quickly induces tears. Maybe it’s because I’m a Dad of three girls. Perhaps it’s the inner thoughts about myself.
Teenage Haley is making poor relationship choices and vents to her Mum about her Dad from an open lift: “I’m a huge disappointment to him. I see it on his face everyday. He acts as if he doesn’t want me around.”
What do you think comes to God’s mind when he thinks about you? Anger? Frustration? Disappointment?
Suddenly Dad emerges from an adjacent lift, not knowing his daughter can hear. “That’s my little girl. I need her to know that no guy on earth is good enough for her.”
Haley has no words, she just hugs her Dad who had no idea she was there. How profoundly moving to finally hear the truth that she is deeply loved.
I wonder how many of us live life ‘knowing’ how God feels about us. Did you know God chose you before the foundation of the world (Eph 1:4)? He didn’t choose you from a group of others. He imagined you out of nothing. You exist because he wanted you. You are his inheritance (Eph 1:18). You are the one about whom he is well pleased (Luke 3:22). You are the one over whom he sings loud songs of joy over you (Zech 3:17).
My number one prayer is simply this: that you would hear what God really thinks of you. It would affect every single other aspect of your life. It would release you to freely love God with every fibre of your being and love others as an overflow of how you’ve been loved. Life would never be the same again. This is why we want every one of us to grow deeper in our knowledge of Scripture, because through it you’ll hear what God really thinks.
May God answer my prayer in your life today.
Much love,
Simon
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