He Started It!

#106  March 16, 2013, 11:55p.m., at home, going to bed

What shall we talk about ?

There is so much more to share with you.

So sit still, be very still.  Quiet your breathing.  Think gentle thoughts.  Do not be frantic about the hour or that you had not planned to write. 

Rejoice that you heard My Voice and recognized it.  You didn’t expect to hear it, but really that is how I always come, unexpectedly. 

Are you quiet with pen and paper in hand?  Then write the following.

My God loves you.  My God delights in your laugh, your smile, your well-being.  My God wants you to know Him as ‘Your God’ – so you can then call Him ‘my God’ when you talk about Him to your heart or to others.

Think how it will catch your breath when perhaps for years you have not had a personal relationship with God and now you do.  So you can call Him “my God” and really mean it. 

God is universal for sure, but He clearly wants to be a personal friend to each of us.  It is not that we want to own Him when we say “my God”, but rather we want to convey to God how personal our relationship really is.  I can’t own God, but I can show Him how closely I care for Him and want to serve Him.

He is not a God ‘for out there’.  He is a God for ‘in here’ --  in my heart and soul.  So He is my God who sustains my very being.

Do not get confused and feel you are controlling God.  Quite the contrary.  He wants you to know how personal He wants to be to you.  Closer than your favorite teddy bear (my bear);  closer than your favorite picture (my picture);  closer  than your deepest secret (my secret) – that is how deep He wants you to feel about His presence, His overall presence in your life.

Can you see introducing Him --  ‘this is my God’ – not someone whom I manipulate, but someone I am willing to be guided by, someone who knows all and wants to share His Wisdom with me, someone to whom I can share all my joys and pains and never feel intimidated. 

When I introduce my parents, I call them ‘my mom, my dad’.  So I easily call God ‘my God’ because He has created me and called me to be His.

He started it really.  He says ‘you are Mine’ – what a great example, what great encouragement. 

Notice, as Jesus hangs on the Cross He cries out “My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me?”  Jesus wants us to know of and believe in His Father personally.  Not as a standoffish Being but One that loves unlimitedly. 

So press on calling Him ‘my God’.  It does not mean that no one else can have it – like a child crying over a toy might say “that is mine.”

Your intention is not to possess God, but rather to make Him oh so personal -- your best buddy and friend who is so magnificent that He can be a buddy and friend to each and everyone in the world both in the past, present and future.

So don’t dare be jealous of sharing God.  He is not to be owned but proclaimed and loved.

Your prayer is one of gratitude to God expressing the fact that He loves and cares for you personally and asks you to return this love and share it with others.

So yes call Me your God because you delight to have realized that I want to be One with each of you.

If you leave Me ‘out there’, there can’t be a personal relationship. 

So welcome Me into your heart.  Pray that others will welcome Me into their hearts.

Each one of you ‘is Mine’.  And I want to be ‘mine’ to each one of you.

Let’s get personal.  Let’s desire to love each other deeply.  Let Me be God to you and I most willingly will welcome your company into My Sacred Heart.

So now to sleep – knowing you are Mine and I so desire to be yours.

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