Love you, loveing me

"It's as if we've been purposefully designed with a factory defect that keeps us searching..... for Love. " This quote it from Erwin Mcmanus in Soul Cravings.

I thought the is So True. Since the fall of man in the garden of Eden we have been looking to have that Intimate bond of love back with God. I think the defect is that we broke our end of the bargain with God, and now we are looking anywhere and everywhere to get it back. It must have hurt dearly for Adam and Eve when they were kicked out of the garden. I mean think about, you have everyday close fellowship with the creator of the world. He is way more than a best friend and loves you dearly, and then you screw it up. Would you not want everything to go back to the way it was, back to before????

I think our Defect is our Sin nature, but our programming is for us to be connected to the creator.

Invisible Invitation

I have been thinking lately about being caught in the moment with God. The state when you truly aware of his presence and of your minuteness. Is there a way to be in that state of awareness 24-7? I am not looking for some process (press a,b,a,b,L,r,l,r,up,down,up,down,select, start) to get into Gods presence I am looking to a constant, something tangible that will make me completely aware all the time. For one I know I have Many unconfessed sins that could be hindering, but even when I am not running around sinning (or so I think) I am often time not truly aware of God's greatness. I love God's beauty of Nature, and his killer creativity of how things work, but I am not often aware of his presence. THis is something I have been wrestling with the last couple of days and needed to get it off my chest.

Father, Father why have you forsaken me?

Forsaken : TO renounce or turn away
Synonym : abandon

I am currently Reading, It is kind of crazy the stats they are throwing out about fatherless children. Something like 80% of all rapist grew up without a father, something like 60% of all teen suicide grew up without a father. Now this book was written almost 10 years ago, but man this is crazy. But going with the old adage hurt people hurt people, How do we show fatherless boys how to be a Father? This isn't a 3 step process or a quick fix. How do we challenge Men to step up into their God given leadership rolls and "BE A MAN". Maybe by the time I get to the end of the book he will have something else I can share but right now it is tearing me up inside.