Treasure

I think of you in the quiet still
Softly you are here
Everything changes when I know you are near
The air takes notice
All is at attention
All creation at attention
You create such a lovely peace
To call you is to hold you
Just to speak to you makes me weak
Yet stronger
Much stronger
Mighty
Help me to bend my will to yours
I love that you love to be with me
Amazing
Hold onto you
I want to hold on to you
To hold the hand of the one who made me
To cry in your rest
To rest in your peace
The peace in your storm
How can I know the love of one so wonderful
You are so good to me
Words are lost in your storm
So quiet and still
I am covered
I am drenched
I am filled but empty
I realize how empty I am without you
Closer
I almost hear
I almost feel
Like the laughter of children
Like the songs of the saved
The rain fell on me today
You were there
Washing
Flooding
Filling
Pouring
How beautiful love fell
What lovely rain
Again in your storm
Take me back
Tell me more
Tell me secrets
To share with you is to have everything
I don't know why I fight myself
I don't know why I sit and cry without you
You always want to sit with me when I cry
I forget how close you are
Someday you will wipe them all away
I have no grasp of you
Yet I want to try
You think of me as treasure
Something wonderful you made
You chose me to love you
And you are so happy I chose you
I am too
This is our place
I want to come back
I don't want to leave
I want to take it with me
I want to take you with me
You are MY treasure too

A Love Story

What is a child of God?

Heir

Blessed

Chosen

Set apart

Servant

Called

We do not even begin to understand what it means to be who we are.

God knew us even in the womb.

He keeps track of the number of hairs we have.  He says that we are highly favored and wonderfully made!

He REALLY loves us.

Here's how it began.

After God created a home then God created man to live there.  The creator loved the creation. Man was a treasure created and formed in the very image of the creator. God and man were very close and loved each other very much.

Then man was tempted to fall, or maybe even jump into sin thus separating himself from the creator.

Hell was made for sin. Man was not.

God is a just God. Where there is justice there must be rules.  God created rules thereby  creating justice.  God must follow his own rules.  Big rule:  SIN = DEATH

Because of justice eternal death (hell) had the right to take man and keep man.

Because of love God had to make a way to save us.

What to do, what to do.

Someone must die to satisfy the law of sin and death!

"I will go and satisfy the law and die for man," said the creator.

"Their judgment is upon me!"

God had to personally become man by being born of a woman.

Son of God and son of man.  

The only man without sin.

The only way we can be saved.

All of the filth and sin of all of man for all of time was placed upon our creator.  He took it all.  The very one who formed us with his hands and breathed our very breath into us died in our place and took our punishment.

The blood of the innocent was shed for the guilty. The righteous and Holy became sin and death for us. The creator gave his life for His beloved.

And I am forever grateful.  

Because he knew no sin death could not hold him. Because He took our place hell could not keep us.

He rose from death and with him he held salvation for all. A gift with no cost but paid for at a very high price. The very life of God was given up for me.

I am amazed.

Reconciled

Reunited

Returned

Justified

And Redeemed

The creator made a way to bring back to himself the created.

The beloved.

The treasured one.

And now that same blood that saves flows within every believer placing God in man to live.

What!  God lives in me?

And there is nothing that can separate the child from the love of the Father. NOTHING.  The creator can live in the created. The savior can abide within the saved. The two become one. Never ever to part.

A love story

The story of love.