Here’s a piece of text from From A Gentle Thunder; by Max Lucado. I’ve read it before, but I was feeling a little…ehhhh so I read it again and I like the point it makes. 
A few years back, we had a banner year at our house. Our third daughter learned how to swim. That meant that three could walk. Three could swim. And two out of the three had the training wheels off their bikes. With each achievement they have delightedly pointed out, “Look, Dad, I can do it on my own.” My wife, Denalyn, and I have applauded and celebrated each accomplishment our daughters have made. Their maturity and mobility is good and necessary, but I hope they never get to the point where they are too grown up to call their daddy.
God feels the same way about us.
Other times we don’t feel independent; we feel insignificant. We think, “Sure, Mary can take her problems to Jesus. She’s his mother. He doesn’t want to hear my problems. I don’t want to trouble him with my messes.”
If that is your thought, may I share with you a favorite verse of mine? I like it so much I wrote it on the first page of my Bible.
“Because he delights in me, he saved me.” (Ps. 18:19)
And you thought he saved you because of your decency. You thought he saved you because of your good works or good attitude or good looks. Sorry. If that were the case, your salvation would be lost when your voice went south or your works got weak. There are many reasons God saves you: to bring glory to himself, to appease his justice, to demonstrate his sovereignty. But one of the sweetest reasons God saved you is because he is fond of you. He likes having you around. He thinks you are the best thing to come down the pike in quite awhile. “As a man rejoices over his new wife, so your God will rejoice over you.” (Isaiah. 62:5)
If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If he had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning. Whenever you want to talk, he’ll listen. He can live anywhere in the universe, and he chose your heart. And the Christmas gift he sent you in Bethlehem? Face it, friend. He’s crazy about you.
Jeremy
It’s weird, I’m going to comment on this thing because of a particular belief I think I’ve held for a long time, one that I think is time to let go of. And that is the idea that we go through alot of bad crap because we aren’t "doing good enough". Now, I’m coming to the realization that this is in fact bogus. Life sometimes is life. Sometimes bad crap happens to good people. We live in a fallen world. I want to actually be the man my God wants me to be, and that entails realizing that he doesn’t want me to suffer, or be in pain, or go through hardships. But those are a direct result of my own rebelliousness, or the original rebelliousness of this world. In the end I realize that his hands are bigger than mine and I’m reminded of what CS said " <i>’Safe?’ said Mr. Beaver…’Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. but he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.’"</i> - <b>Lion, witch, and the Wardrobe</b>
He is good, and I’ll be on that side til the day I die.
Skedoozy
Hear Hear! I always had a problem with that statement. I always thought it was crap. Why would anyone want anyone to suffer? :/
BTW until I find out how to fix it you have to change that drop down box to HTML formatted to get those ’s and what not to work. :/ I’ll fix it though!
Skedoozy
Bahaha I fixed it It will all work Now!
