You are Never Out of His Thoughts

 

 

 

Some of us think we have to wave our arms wildly, say a magic word, or check off a line of religious boxes to be worthy of God’s glancing in our direction. We struggle to believe God thinks of us with deep love every moment of every day.

 

But, in fact, we are the ones who wander. God is always with us.

 

And here’s the inescapable truth: 

 

Our brains have to be rewired for perfect love. 

Here’s why. Many of us transfer our attachment disorders onto our relationship with God. We have received halting, crippled human love from our caregivers and we end up using that same lens with which to view God. It’s the only lens for love we have! 

 

In Brain science speak, we’re literally  trying to push perfect love through the same neural pathways we were given of imperfect human love.

 

This rewiring to perfect love is the ultimate mission of The Presence Project.

 

 

 

But as we know, the renewing of our mind is slow growth. It takes a slow marinating and a hand in hand journey with the Holy Spirit. 

 

We’re going to be talking a great deal more about attachment theory and our present practice of keeping a sensory reminder of God’s Presence in the coming weeks. 

 

For now, let’s park right here:

 

You are never out of His thoughts, You are never out of range of His care. 

 

 

In fact, there is no scarcity of the attention of God. It is abundantly generous. And I want you to hear this: Your behavior does not cause the love and attention of God to wax or wane. He never walks out of the room disgusted or bored by you.

 

We, who live tangled in the brokenness of the world, forget He is the perfect being, a God with no human limitations. He is Present everywhere. Psalm 139 reminds us there’s no place we could go to risk being outside the circle of His Presence.

 

His thoughts are always towards us. He is always searching the horizon for his children. He leaves the 99 and pursues the one.

 

 

A few quotes:

 

The 19th c. prolific preacher Spurgeon said this to his congregation in a sermon:

 

“You are his beloved, his spouse, the darling of his heart, and he has himself said, “Mine eye and my heart are toward thee continually.” Every moment of every day, every day of every month, and every month of every year, is the Lord continually thinking upon you.”

 

If we go back a handful of centuries more, we find this quote from Meister Eckhart (hat tip Terry Wardle in his podcast on slingstones):

 

 

 

 

We believe we have to work hard to stay in God’s graces, but I wonder, what if we saw it as our job not to strive forward towards a God hiding in the fog, as if he’s near impossible to find, but to fall backward into His waiting arms, time and time again.

 

Fall. His arms are open.