Gonna Getcha Getcha Getcha

I read: Hebrews 4-6

There's one thought that has been coming up a lot for me lately and I found it again in chapter 4, verses 15-16 of the letter to the Hebrews: "So, let's walk right up to him and get what he is so ready to give. Take the mercy, accept the help."

This is the frequent thought: God is not the shy girl at the party standing in the corner with her back to us, looking over her shoulder to see if we notice her. God is instead the outgoing girl who runs right up, introduces herself and then hands over her phone number. Weird analogy, right? Yeah, but imagine if that girl already knows that she loves you and she knows that because she already knows you're going to marry her. Then you'd be pretty thankful that she did that, right? Save you a lot of work.

Exactly. God is so excited to meet us and spend time with us that he has come up, introduced himself, and extended his hand. If we don't know God, it's not because he hasn't tried, it's because we're standing there staring him in the face and pretending like he's not really there. And if we don't know him better it's because we've jammed our hands in our pockets and we're staring at our shoes and mumbling something about the weather.

Don't ever forget that he came for us. He came for us. The work's been done, we just need to shake hands back.