"Hey let's do lunch some time!" (we've all heard this phrase ...it has almost become as lame as "how you doing!").
The human race continues to come up with expressions that send out messages of hopeful connection to each other. It is not that we have no intentions of fulfilling that hope, but in the rushing of our days we become powerless so many times to guaranty the connection. "Twenty years later, and we still have not hooked up for lunch".

If our security for eternity with our God was dependent upon our faithfulness to fulfill the expressions we send His way...we would all be hopelessly lost. Many of our songs reflect this desire to raise these expressions to Him: "O God you are my God and I will ever praise you, I will seek you in the morning and I will learn to walk in you ways, step by step you'll lead me and I will follow you all of my days." Great song...and He doesn't fault us for our hopeful expressions but for our sake it doesn't depend on us. He doesn't depend on us.

I Corinthians 2:4- 9 -14
4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
8 Which none of the princes of this world knew : for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But as it is written , Eye hath not seen , nor ear heard,
neither have entered into the heart of man, the things
which God hath prepared for them that love him.
10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received , not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak , not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth ; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

God has PREPARED ...He made all the necessary adjustments so He could fit us into His life. We were enemies, sinful, already condemned, unprofitable, unworthy, unholy, unlovely, ...no room for Him. But while we were all this "Christ died for us" ... "He arose for us" ... making room for us... Before leaving in John 14...He said " I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am, you may be also."

The only thing He leaves in our hands ... is to call out for the rescue. Romans 10:13 Since the Fall of man there has be a Man Shaped Hole in the Broken Heart of the God that created him. Sin totally kept that hole disappointingly empty ... But Jesus removed the sin situation preparing the way back into God's heart.

Come, you won't be disappointed, He really does want you.

One parting thought ... If God so loved you that He prepared the Way for you, why would you feel He is not interested or loses interest in you?

HLFA,

Jeff