A Heavenly Romance

My heart was really stirred this morning when I woke up. I read something a couple days ago from an email devotional that I get from an author named John Eldridge. It was talking about a sacred romance. It was a small short paragraph but it just intrigued me to the point of wanting to go deeper on the subject. So here I am, wanting to share this with all of you. Hoping that this will either help you or bless you as read what the Holy Spirit laid on my heart.

I am a very sensitive kind of guy. For a long time I hated how sensitive I was. I didn’t understand why 90% of the time I was in the presence of God I cried. Or why when I saw God moving in someone’s life or when I was praying for someone I would ALWAYS cry. It started to drive me nuts. Then, with a help of a very dear friend of mine, they helped me realize that as an artist I was naturally sensitive. But then with the Holy Spirit inside of me that just added to it. As a worship leader I have to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit in worship. Otherwise, I will lead people to myself instead of into the presence of God.

After reading this devotional, the Lord laid something else on my heart. He spoke to me that my sensitivity was not a design flaw. It was put there for a purpose. It was put there for intimacy with him. But it gave me an awakening like never before. I started to put all the dots together. Everything started to make sense.
I cherish and want the little things in life. There is a part of me that wants a beautiful wife and a family so bad at times. I desire it so much that I lose focus. Meaning, I get distracted. Now, please don’t get me wrong. I believe the Lord DOES want us to be married. There is nothing wrong with that! I am just saying that until we give our all to him (and I do mean ALL), we will always live with that feeling that we feel like we have missed something. We will never feel completion.

Our hearts were created by God for a sacred romance. We as individuals tend to feel the longing for intimacy, so we just give it away to anyone or anything that will take the time to love us even a tiny bit even if that means giving our whole hearts away to something or someone. This romance however goes deeper than we could ever imagine. It was designed by a jealous God, a God that won’t relent until he has it all. He is the creator of romance. He wrote the book. The Bible is a beautiful sacred romance love story where all of mankind is caught in the middle of it. Where a God who has it all desired to be near us, surround us, and be intimate with us that he gave his only son to have all of us. What a gift for a first date! He desires us. (Let that soak in for a minute) He longs for us. But our God is a gentleman. He will not force himself on anyone. He wants us to draw near out of pure surrender!
I believe the Lord knows that I want a wife and a family here on earth. But he also knows that the place that he has taken in my heart will NEVER go to anyone else but him. And I will never desire to take HIS place in the heart of another. I only wish to invest in it and watch it grow. That’s what he has called me to do as a man of God.

His love never fails, it never runs dry, and it will never abandon you. Give him your WHOLE heart! Rest in knowing that he will satisfy your soul! I promise!