What is it that drives the desires of our hearts? I believe it is universally parallel: To be loved and known. Is this not our fundamental human need? Who is the Author who built this need into the core of our souls? Could it be that the God who created each one of us...who planted such needs to be grown and tended to within our beings...this God who so longs for our communion and our relationship; could it be that he has the same heart desires? To be loved and to be known.
God intricately and precisely designed us to need. To need others. To need him. To need relationship. Without it, we are left to fight a war ill-equipped. Jumping hurdles and going into battles, disabled. The Artist defines beautiful. Engineers the concept of wholeness within the interconnected relationship of the Trinity. Fully loved. Fully known.
In a culture which depicts strength as individuality and independence...a "dog eats dog" and Darwinistic "survival of the fittest" value, we are called...no, we are designed, to embrace our intrinsic need to be interdependent within relationship. We are designed to need!
Personally, having the feeling of needing someone, admittedly causes me to feel weak. But is this not the point? For the Scripture actually equates our "weakness" to being equipped with the strength of our Lord. When we need, God is able to offer himself. That is relationship. It is within this relationship that we are truly able to experience Love and to know more of God. Our faith walk. What a privilege we have to be able to long for, experience, and to be longed for--from the very heart of Jesus. Who are we that we would influence the heartbeat of God, himself?---We are his---
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