I wrote this as we were having a group meeting and everyone began sharing how God was moving or how they wished God was moving, and it was very encouraging. I was sick towards the beginning of the conversation, so much so that I could not get out of the bed (the night before I was sick and throwing up) but by the end of the conversation I realized I was so excited about God that I had got up moved across the room and was sitting with everyone and I was writing this weeping the whole time. I am so moved at how much God loves us, I hope that you see how much God loves you and you can come to know this love too.

It's so simple, yet we make it so complicated nor do we get it. I hear so often preached "God Loves You" and I hear the first two words of that phrase, then take the last word "you" as a plural you for all Christians. I think well duh God loves us, but what I always miss from that message is God yelling directly at me, "JOHN I LOVE YOU" I love you, I love you, I love you!!!

It's so simple God is love, and the highest calling God can put on anyone's life is to know this love he has for us. We need to grasp that, we need to understand. From the very beginning God loved us; he created us simply to be with him.

The apostle John was so clear about love. We all know it... John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. Also in 1 John says over and over LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, God is love, love one another. John was the youngest of the disciples and he understood the most important thing, that Jesus IS love it forever changed his life because he GOT IT!!!

I can speak for myself and probably many others. So many times I am moved by the junk that goes on in this world, and I begin to pray for those things. I do so in all the wrong motives though I desire people who are broken-hearted, sick, and crippled to be healed, but instead because I want something cool to happen. Someone read a passage to me from Utmost for his highest that reminded me of just that.

(December 6 entry ‘the bow in the cloud')

"It is the will of God that human beings should get into moral relationship with Him, and His covenants are for this purpose. Why does not God save me? He saved me, but I have not entered into relationship with Him. Why does not God do this and that? He has done it, the point is – Will I step into covenant relationship? All the great blessings of God are finished and complete, but they are not mine until I enter into relationship with Him on the basis of His covenant.

Waiting for God is incarnate unbelief, it means that I have no faith in Him; I wait for Him to do something in me that I may trust in that. God will not do it, because that is not the basis of the God-and-man relationship. Man has to go out of himself in his covenant with God as god goes out of Himself in His covenant with man. It is a question of faith in God-the rarest thing; we have faith only in our feelings. I do not believe God unless He will give me something in my hand whereby I may know I have it, then I say-‘ now I believe.' There is no faith there." (‘Utmost for his highest' by Oswald Chambers)

So many times I desire to stand on these signs that God gives me. But Jesus says in Luke 11:29, this generation is an evil generation. It seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given but the sign of Jonah. We have complicated things so much, all we need is love. Paul says the fruit of the spirit is love. We spend too much time waiting on a sign when God has already given it to us. HE SENT HIS SON TO DIE FOR US SO THAT WE COULD BE WITH HIM, BECAUSE HE LOVES YOU!!!!

Because God is love.