Catching You: A 5-Day Plan to Creating a Life of Security and Loveಮಾದರಿ

God finds us so captivating that he will never stop pursuing us. God sees such beauty in each one of us that he wants to make of us a sacred space in which to dwell. God desires to live within that sacred space with us forever in divine unity. And through this pursuit and indwelling, God means to make us into new creatures more full of light and love and fire than we ever could have conceived. 

But I also know this: God did not make us to be slaves or fashion us to be robots. God created us to be his children. People of free will. Individuals who, when called, have a decision to make. Will we follow? Will we say yes? Will we be receptive and open? Will we beg him to enter into us and make of us his dwelling place? Or will we turn away?

At every moment of each day this is a decision we must make.

I know. Do we not have enough on our plates with all the laundry and jobs and meal planning and errand running and volunteering and loving on husbands and deep conditioning of our hair and chick-lit reading and snuggling with kids and the rest? Now we have to make big indwelling decisions all day too?

Yes and no. For the most part, I think God just wants to hang out with us. He wants to stand next to us while we do our laundry and listen to us tell him how sometimes the task feels endless but also brings us such joy knowing that he saw fit to give us people we can love and serve. He wants to ride along in our cars and occasionally remind us that the person who just cut us off might just be distracted by some challenge or tragedy rather than being, at the core, a terrible and unredeemable person. He wants to hold us when we cry because the thing we just said to our spouse that was meant to uplift got all twisted in the delivery and now our spouse is mad and hurt and we miss them. He wants to sit with us while we binge-watch our favorite show and delight in our delight.

Allow him to do that. Welcome him into all the moments of your day—that is, ask him to dwell within you. It really is as simple as that.