I was talking to Jeff today about a few issues that of late have begun to occupy more of my mind and time than I'd like to admit. As is his job as my best friend, he was offering advice and trying to help me understand why things were going the way that they were, when he made a comment that forever changed the way I view God...
We were talking about my feelings for a particular person, and the confusion that I currently have about whether we are, "just friends," when something that Jeff said hit me upside the head.
"Is he the kind of guy that God wants you to be with?" In other words, "would your Father approve ?"
It's amazing to me how I can spend so much time with my eyes closed, praying and talking to God, and I never stop to just look at his face.
OK...I realize that I can't actually see his physical face...(and to be honest, when I "saw" him today, in my heart, he was wearing a navy blue Adidas track-suit) but with those words, for the first time in my life, Jeff helped me to see God in a way that I believe he wants us all to see him...as a loving Dad. Not a controlling Father who spends his time setting up arranged marriages, but a Dad who cares so deeply about our happiness and worth, that he only wants us to ask for his approval of the person we are considering spending our earthly life with. And even better, he promises to tell us what he thinks about it!!!
I like to think that when the old testament speaks of God being a jealous god, it is because he secretly says in his heart, "nobody is good enough for my son. If you expect me to entrust his heart to you during this journey on earth, then brother, you had better be something special." that's how I like to see it. I find comfort in that. I find peace in that.
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