Act One -Once Upon A Time there was Love
September 12
God's story is an epic love story. John Eldredge suggests an alternate opening phrase for Genesis Chapter 1 could read...Once Upon a Time...instead of In the beginning.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. John 1:1-2
One, two, three! God is relational, it's the Trinity! He created us to long for relationship. Check out this verse. He has planted eternity in the human heart. Ecclesiastes 3:11 He wants us to find our way to Him forever because he loves us deeply.
The other day I spent over an hour with my elderly father. The whole time was spent looking at pictures, which he goes through every day. We started with a picture of his parents, then his 5th grade class, went through his high school year book (where he was selected Best Student and Best Looking), and on to the college years where he met the love of his life. Each picture held the story of a relationship.
Eldredge writes:
"Whatever else it means to be human, we know beyond doubt that it means to be relational. Aren't the greatest joys and memories of your life associated with family, friendship, or falling in love? Aren't your deepest wounds somehow connected to someone also, to a failure of relationship? That you were loved but are no longer, or that you never have been chosen?
One of the deepest of all human longings is the longing to belong, to be a part of things, to be invited in. We want to be part of the fellowship. Where did that come from?...We are relational to the core. We are made, as it says in Genesis, in the image of God or, better, in the image of the Trinity:
"Let us make man in our image." (1:26)
Feeling unloved? We are loved by a very relational Father God, Son Jesus, and Holy Spirit Helper. Share this good news with someone today.
God's story is an epic love story. John Eldredge suggests an alternate opening phrase for Genesis Chapter 1 could read...Once Upon a Time...instead of In the beginning.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. John 1:1-2
One, two, three! God is relational, it's the Trinity! He created us to long for relationship. Check out this verse. He has planted eternity in the human heart. Ecclesiastes 3:11 He wants us to find our way to Him forever because he loves us deeply.
The other day I spent over an hour with my elderly father. The whole time was spent looking at pictures, which he goes through every day. We started with a picture of his parents, then his 5th grade class, went through his high school year book (where he was selected Best Student and Best Looking), and on to the college years where he met the love of his life. Each picture held the story of a relationship.
Eldredge writes:
"Whatever else it means to be human, we know beyond doubt that it means to be relational. Aren't the greatest joys and memories of your life associated with family, friendship, or falling in love? Aren't your deepest wounds somehow connected to someone also, to a failure of relationship? That you were loved but are no longer, or that you never have been chosen?
One of the deepest of all human longings is the longing to belong, to be a part of things, to be invited in. We want to be part of the fellowship. Where did that come from?...We are relational to the core. We are made, as it says in Genesis, in the image of God or, better, in the image of the Trinity:
"Let us make man in our image." (1:26)
Feeling unloved? We are loved by a very relational Father God, Son Jesus, and Holy Spirit Helper. Share this good news with someone today.
