Thursday, 18 June 2009

• When the real God speaks through fiction

  I finished reading 464 page Christian romance novel, "Redeeming Love", in just over a week's time this morning at 5:15am.

  I'm tired, yet spiritually awake. For the thousands upon thousands of words found in this book, I am speechless as to the profound effect it has had on my life.

  It has spoken what seems to be prophetic notes (rather ironic given that the book is based on the book of Hosea in the Bible; Hosea, an Old Testiment prophet) in my heart and present life.
  It has reminded me of how much I need God and have simply got to lay down all my questions and fears at His feet.
  That I can really, truly be broken before Him with all my shame and sin that I purposely heaped on myself...even when I asked for forgiveness for the same thing the night before.
  I am filled with a longing and a hope renewed for God's best...not merely what I hope for, myself.
  I don't have to be afraid of God like I have been...afraid of never feeling His praise, His acceptance, His desire for me.

  Most of all, among many other things, I am more certain that God loves me. Just because. I have always known it is true...in my head. My heart...still struggles. Not so much now.

   

  "Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love. We love each other because he loved us first" - 1 John 4:18-19 (NLT).

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