the Initiator

1 John 4:19 We love Him because He first loved us.   It struck me this morning that it is not so much that "we come to God" as "He comes to us".  Just as He came first to build this material world that we live in, so He comes to build our inner spiritual world as well.  Just as He established a Nation to demonstrate His nature and to form the lineage of His Son, so He has spawned a spiritual nation of believers who also descend from Abraham.  He even came to earth to live among us in the flesh to show His reality and to open a path back to Himself.  Time and again His people from the Old Testament, New Testament and following times have turned from Him, but He has initiated the recovery with spiritual discipline and inner conviction by the Holy Spirit that He also sent to help us.  I'm convinced that we don't naturally come to God.  Fortunately He, supernaturally, comes to us.  I was reminded that faith is an arrow that has its bow in heaven.  We had no interest in Him until He pierced our hearts with the Truth of His reality and of His plan to save us that He might know us.  When we are born again after we have been born of the flesh it is because the God who loves us has become our Father personally.  Our new conception is one of faith that has germinated from His loving outreach.  Our awakened faith is nothing short of a miracle, and we live within that miracle.  We hope to be a part of the great Initiator's plan to bring that miracle to others!   Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.   blessings, Rob Smith