God's Love

The roaring of the ocean plays its tune softly in the background. The black birds make their song. The blue sky leaves the heavens open for the sun to warm the earth. How amazing it is to be alive every day; to breathe the sweet air that surrounds this globe. Our world is full of hurt and pain, but surrounding that is the love, beauty and compassion of the human race. Praise be to God for loving his people, to put them through hard times and to them hug them with love.  He sends his angels down to protect, while the sinful world slowly kills itself. Even though we are lost in sin, we are blessed and loved and surrounded by beauty that is unfathomably great. Who are we to deserve this? And how is it that we can be saved by Jesus Christ? Bow down and worship Him, for he has us in the palm of his hands and he watches us as we make poor decision after poor decision. And yet, He loves us every moment in time. Sin takes us off of our path and many never return to the path. With every hurting, searching human being that never makes it back, God weeps for their hearts. His hurt shakes the earth. And yet, we blame him for the cruelty of Sin. Mankind suffers hurt and the whole time God is calling out our names with open arms, begging us to embrace Him. We don’t want to admit that He is the solution to our death, so we destroy ourselves. People! God is good! He wants us to allow him in our hearts so, He can save us each and every day from the sin that surrounds our race. Praise Him, for sending the birds to sing, the oceans to roar, and the flowers to paint the earth. 

Relationship with God in Solitude

      There are times when you are given the freedom to just sit. Often times it is not necessarily something that you want to do, because of things that need to get done or other things that seem more inviting. Take into consideration, however, how often you allow yourself the time to let your mind wander or even allow it to mindlessly notice the shapes of the clouds or the sound of the wind in the trees. I find that I can sit and listen or watch people go about their days for hours and leave those moments feeling less stressed, more content, happier…you name it.
Human beings often times get so caught up in our lives that we don’t give our bodies time to rejuvenate. I’m not talking a good 8 hours of sleep or a twenty-minute afternoon nap every so often. While that is good, I feel that we were created to spend time in thought. It is hard for me to write things I am passionate about without bringing in my religious beliefs and how that correlates. I feel, personally, that your view of religion and of God can have such an important role when taking our lives into consideration. All that to say that I feel obligated to add another point about “quiet time”, which, in turn, illuminates what I believe.

This time that we, as humans, crave seems to be quite persistent. I firmly believe that God created us with the need for that time, because we need that time to worship him. He calls us to worship him and when placed in a serene place with no one else, our mind becomes relaxed and cleansed, simply because we are not distracted by life. Either that, or we have a place to consider the distractions of life and how to, then, deal with them.
If any of that makes sense, then I am incandescently overjoyed. But, to sum it up, I feel like human beings need that time of sitting and pondering because we were created to need that. Primarily, we need that to focus on God but he gives us that time to simply relax and clean out our minds. That’s the only way I can explain why everyone at one time or another, or on multiple occasions takes time to get away, even if they are not believers. We, as human beings, are programmed to need that time to just sit and be.