"What exactly is God's motivation toward humanity?...love...If the message that God wants to get across to us is just about getting our beliefs right, then He didn't need to come Himself. If God's entire intent was to simply overwhelm us with the miraculous so that we could finally believe, no personal visitation is necessary. There is only one reason to come Himself, because in issues of love, you just can't have someone else stand in for you." - (Erwin McMannus, Soul Cravings)
So I'm sitting here in a coffee shop looking out at the humans running through the rain-soaked parking lot and I ask, "Really? Really? He desires us car-driving, shopping-obsessed, self-absorbed suburbanites?" Yet in the hills just beyond, it is still, and I see Him waiting patiently indeed, His passion fully kindled and His desire undeterred ~ a passion and desire for which I am fully grateful.
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