In God's Heart

A home visit yesterday with a beautiful single mom and her three children let to this profound statement.

"I'm in God's Heart," the ten year boy old told me, with his eyes piercing.

Of course, we are to ask God in to our hearts.  

Of course, it is us who comes to God.

Yes, it is us who needs God, and not the other way around.

How do we know this love exist?  Or our need for love and salvation to begin with?  Who shows us our need for a very big God to live within us?  

 "I am in God's Heart."

As a mother holds her child in her arms in those precious first moments, 

Countless hours of holding, cooing, loving and nurturing drives the child into her heart and her within his.

This baby grows and toddles through the house.  His eyes follows his mom and knows those arms will pull him in to her heart when he hurts or needs refilled.

This same boy goes to school and begins activities.  His eyes find his mom from the stage or the field.  She holds him in her heart.

Frustration within a young man's heart pushes a mother's hands away at times.  Never away from her heart.

Proving himself as a man, he leaves his mom.  Never her heart.  He draws back to her for a touch or a word or a reassurance.  He may reject and stray.  However, when he reaches out to this Mother's heart; he is drawn close.

My heart constricts and my eyes water.

God holds His children close.  These little ones are near and dear to His heart at all times.  He watches and shepherds and will take revenge on those who touch His little ones.

We grow up.  We become individuals.  We think we know best and our intelligence is way beyond our need for a God.  We might reject and walk away.

God stays.  

Ready to draw His child back in to His everlasting arms.

God holds us in His heart and knows how very much we need Him in ours.  Giving our everything to Him.