Healing the Wounded Heart: Removing Obstacles to Intimacy With God by Thom Gardner

Author:Thom Gardner
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Religion, Spiritual, Evangelism, Christian Ministry, Self-Help
ISBN: 9780768423266
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
Published: 2005-10-31T22:00:00+00:00

Our problem is that we have a human and finite idea of the love of God. We are flawed and needy humans who seldom love without reason. We usually have a reason or rationale upon which to pin our affections for others—even our love of God. We love God more because of what He has done than for who He is.

John, “that disciple whom Jesus loved” (Jn. 21:7), tells us that we hide from God because we just don’t understand the ex-travagant love of God.

We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.

We love, because He first loved us (1 John 4:16-19).

We can trust the love of God. His love is perfect love—a mature love, which means that it does not need anything else to be love. It is unconditional. God does not need us to do anything to enable Him to love us. He is not a man who needs His ego stroked or for us to give Him reason to love us.

God’s love stems from His nature. “God is love” (1 Jn. 4:8b).

Your sin may control you sometimes, but it does not control God.

God wants you to trust Him and stop trying to live in your own power for your own pleasure and glory. Paul says “if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation” (Rom. 10:9-10).

Crying Over Spilled Milk

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God Is Not Separated From Us by Our Nakedness

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (Romans 8:35) God knows us in our nakedness; He used to change our diapers. Make no mistake, God does not accept our sin—just as we would not approve of the sin and rebellion of our own kids. But God sees us as we see our children—as His own precious possessions. I don’t look at, nor do I remember, the countless cups of milk my children have spilled. I see only my babies. So does God.

The truth is that none of us is perfect, none of us faithful.

But God is perfect even when we are not perfect. Paul told Tim-othy that “if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself” (2 Tim. 2:13). God cannot deny His own nature, which is one of sovereign love. He cannot help but to love us and invite us back into fellowship by the blood of Jesus Christ, dirty diapers and all.

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