His Whisperings

Do you ever doubt God's love for you? I think most of His kids do, at some time or another, even if we know better. You see, satan WANTS us to doubt His love for us. But we know it's foolish to give in. So, we will be TEMPTED to doubt His love for us, but we don't have to GIVE IN to that temptation to doubt. Yet God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it, per 1 Corinthians 10:13.

Now, I've mentioned before that He uses my cats to show me different things. Well, one day I was flirting with the temptation to believe He doesn't love me. I was loving on Percy and just delighting in him. (He is quite delightful most of the time!) All of a sudden, it occurred to me that if I could take such delight in a critter, which isn't even a human being that He died for, then why should I find it so hard to believe that HE delights in ME? He died for me! Yes, I sin! No, I'm not perfect! (by a long shot) But my cats do things at times that don't exactly endear them to me, yet I keep on loving them. If I, an imperfect human being, can do that, why would a perfect God not be able to keep loving ME when I do things that don't exactly endear me to HIS heart? Especially when He went to the extreme of dying, not just a peaceful death, but a brutal death for me? Who would have reminded me to liken my delight in my cat to His delight in me? Well, 'the Delighter,' of course!

How easy would it have been to overlook His loving reminder? I think you know the answer. I wonder how many times He has reminded me and I either missed it completely or immediately blew it off, taking credit for the thought myself! Our God is not loud. I think He enjoys whispering to us, as lovers do to each other when they're in public settings. They don't blare out their love for each other. They whisper or, perhaps, it's just a look. How many times does He give us a look and we miss it? Oh, I fear to know how many times! Let us keep our ears and eyes open to catch those sweet whispers and looks of love He sends our way! (and them return them to Him!)