He Desires You

No matter how we feel after a rough day or if we failed miserably God doesn't avoid us or put us to shame.

Rather He is so deeply in love with us that He is quite besides Himself when we turn our attention to Him. Could you imagine the smile on His lips when we call out His name?

When He thinks about us it brings Him joy. It says in Zephaniah 3:17 that He breaks out in a song! "The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing."

We may never fully understand why He desires us. We get a small glimpse in Song of Solomon. Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck (4:9, KJV).The word ravish means intense desire or to be enrapture. One archaic meaning defines it as to seize, snatch or carry off (someone) by force.

Just one glance in our direction and God is enraptured and seized by love for us!

Sadly, we question such holy passion while looking at our sins, failures and messes. Why would He love us? Look where we live and the places we find ourselves! We might even think God must be blindly in love to overlook our ruined lives to find anything of value.

We must remind ourselves He is God who chose to love us with no conditions. And we must rest in this mystery we can not fully understand that there is something profound about the heart of God who longs for His desire to be satisfied in us.

We can't offer Him anything from our flesh that is of any substance. He first loved us not that we loved Him. We were lost and cut off from the presence of God.

Until He sent His only Son, Jesus Christ. For God so loved the world He gave...

And it's this reason we are most desirable to God - Christ in us the hope of glory - a single glance from God toward us and He sees His Son at work in our lives - making us more like Him.