Early this morning as I was spending some time in prayer and just talking to God about life, I heard sirens start going off everywhere - firetrucks, ambulances, and possibly even cop cars - downtown. As I was listening to them I started thinking about the love of God. So many times, we ourselves take God out of the picture of our life, whether we mean to or not. We get so wrapped up in busy schedules, people, or just pure laziness; we don't give God the time he desires of us. But listening to all of these sirens made me think about how God chases after us as long as it takes. Like those important vehicles, God doesn't let anything stand in the way of getting to where he needs to go. Whether He needs to move mountains, oceans, or even forests, He will get to His destination - He removes any obstacle that stands in His path. But when it comes to us, His creation, He removed the one obstacle that stood in the way of us and Him - sin.
Isaiah 59:2 says - "But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear." When I first read this, it broke my heart because for God not to hear me because of my sins is the most terrifying thing to me. God is my everything but sin separates me from Him. But I remember this obstacle that stands in the way and how God removed it (no matter the cost) with the death of His only son - Jesus Christ. Jeremiah even prophesied about this new covenant between God and man - "The days are coming,' declares the Lord, 'when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah" (Jer. 31:31).
I can find peace in this, that although my sin once separated me from my true love, He removed the obstacle that stood in the way of this love blossoming. To say that God does not care is an understatement; He cared so much that He moved a mountain to stand in the valley - the valley of our hearts.
"The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing." Zephaniah 3:17
~ I can't think of anything more beautiful than a Mighty Warrior singing over His beloved child.
