I just read a note from a young man that is a missionary in China. As I read his words…his passion for reaching people in the most remote parts of the world…his heart beat…the rhythm of his heart… reached all the way to me. I recognized it immediately…it was the rhythm of God’s heart…his passion for each of us…how he pursues us…with His strong and sure hands…how he reaches for us…I’ve felt it before…its familiar…warm…safe…awesome.
It does not matter where we are in this world or what has happened in our lives…no amount of sin or wrongs or bad decisions can keep Him away…He is passionately reaching for us…His heart beats a steady rhythm in passion for us…if you listen…closely…quietly…you can hear it…faint at first…then you realize you can actually feel it…its closer…listen…its becoming more distinct…and then in an awareness that will make you smile…you realize its your heart…beating to His rhythm…amazing…
My daughter Sunny once told me that her heart beats after mine and that her children would carry that same beat as she passed it on to them… the thought was so tender…it overwhelmed me…what an undeserved wonder…I think of it often.
It’s the same with God when we open up and allow Him to be a part of our lives….our hearts begin to beat at His rhythm…and then as we reveal Him to others…and they allow Him in…the rhythm of their heart begins to merge into His and on and on it goes…and the closer He gets…the purer the rhythm…can you hear it…want too?
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Wow! I pulled up facebook and saw me and Race at one of my favortie days at the beach what a surprise.
Yes Dad, I still believe that my heart beats after yours!
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