May 2, 2001
"I remember the devotion of your youth,
how as a bride you loved me and followed me
through the desert through a land not sown."
Jeremiah 2:2
In reading this it struck me how much God's heart hurts when we don't love him with all our hearts. I was thinking about the sadness in my heart I feel at times when relationships aren't what they were meant to be. There is someone with whom I long to have a different/deeper relationship and for many reasons it just isn't that way. It makes my heart ache in ways that nothing else does... this is how God feels toward us. He is the author of relationships (along with everything else), he designed us this way because it's good and it's best for us... his heart aches when we move away from him to any degree.