Do you ever wonder why God puts up with us?  Through the years people have made a habit of disappointing Him.  In truth, failure is our great art.  It is truly the only thing in which we excel.  It doesn’t matter if we are talking about the unfaithful Israelites and their thousand-year flirtation with idolatry, or our own individual struggles with sin.  Our species is constantly breaking God’s heart.

So why does He endure our disloyalty?  Because He loves us?  There can be no doubt.  But what else?  Deuteronomy 10 seems to indicate a different answer.  Not only does He love us, but He yearns for us to love Him in return.  He wants us to reject the world of our own free-will and choose Him!

This changes things somewhat.  Not only does God love me (which could be simply out of a sense of obligation).  He longs for me to love Him!  He wants to hear the words from my lips.  He has pursued me.  I am the object of His desire and my affection is the fondest wish of His divine heart.  All I can say when I begin to absorb that is… WOW.

Kerry