This chapter is stuffed with one great concept/learning after another. Beginning with creation and how Eve is the crown of creation. Wow! My entire life has been spent hearing creation stories and how woman was placed on earth to be man's personal assistant. Now, don't get me wrong - while I do enjoy assisting my husband and find great joy and fulfillment in that - it is not the soul purpose for which I was created. I love this! John and Stasi paint a beautiful picture of Eve. I love how they define God's heart for relationships and how he longs to be sought after, just like the heart of a woman. I pause and think of my own desire for God and how it is lacking. I don't know that I've ever sought after him so desperately. I've gone to God and sought him desperately for help but I have not sought him desperately to love and adore him. Yeah, I've worshiped him, but I think it goes beyond worship. Seeking to be with him because of his beauty and to simply have the opportunity to love him, that is what I lack and that is what I think would bring me great intimacy in my relationship with him.
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Great post! It's amazing to realize we are not just helpers or an assistant. We are the crescendo, the finishing touch of all creation.
Amazing!
Vicki
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Anonymous, at 7:44 AM
I really enjoyed your post and very much identified with when you said that you had not desperately sought after the Lord. Until this year, I had not sought after the Lord at all - but recently, I'm beginning to understand that seeking after God will only bring good to my life. There are tons of examples in the Bible which speak of the benefits of seeking after the Lord:
Psalm 9:10 "Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you."
Psalm 34:10 "The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing."
And we can see that not seeking God can lead to some challenges:
2 Chronicles 12:13 "He did evil because he had not set his heart on seeking the LORD."
So I will pray that you have heart that seeks after the Lord so that you may experience fully all the blessings He has to offer you.
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Courtney, at 7:54 AM
I like your comment about how seeking him to love him "goes beyond worship." I think you're right. I'll have to think more about that. Thanks!
Camy
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Camy Tang, at 4:04 PM
This whole "seeking God desperately" keeps on coming up in several of the groups posts- and I must confess, I had kind of missed that poing, so I'm glad to see it again and again, because I think God is trying to get my attention...
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sarahgrace, at 7:53 PM
mmhh (yes, mmhh, more 'provoked thought' type than hhmm) so makes me feel like picking up my bible!
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Pfingston, at 11:58 PM
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