What I was created for...

He has taken me to the banquet hall, and his banner over me is love. Song of Songs 2:4

She had been created for the Garden she forgot. God had formed her to breathe His breath of life, commune with His holiness, cultivate His creation, enjoy His love forever. She was made to walk with Him in the cool of the day, relax in His presence in complete transparency before His gaze. Longing for Love by Ruth Senter

Oh how my heart longs to look up and through my climb to see a glimpse of my Heavenly Father that I be reminded why I find myself some days precariously clinging to a journey that I've been promised will transform me. There are days of well worn paths, easy, cool shades and warm sunshine then there are the days the journey is more dry, rocky, painful.

There is mundane, there is humility, sometimes even apathy and some part of me shrinks back thinking this isn't the promise, this can't be complete fellowship with my Abba.

Still I climb on, seeking, trusting in faith something my heart at times does not understand, something my mind attempts to comprehend.

There is a place deeper than that in me somewhere not quite always felt by feelings, emotions or seeing thoughts. It is a a greater something, a sweeter something that drives me forward to the high places where I know I will come face to face with it and I will see it isn't a something but a Someone. I walk not seeing my guide but I know He sees me and I continue moving.

How incomprehensible that He chose us to have fellowship. When we rejected Him, rather than recoil in hurt, He sent His most prized, His Son to die that we may come back to Him again. Even still seeking our fellowship, rather than wait until Heaven, he sent His Holy Spirit so we wouldn't be alone.

He chose fellowship. We chose independence. He continues to woo use back not counting against us our rejection. Our sin, our choice. His love, His choice. In a world of choice being paramount, I am thankful to follow a God who chose to love me, unconditionally and eternally.