Our pastor asked us yesterday, “Is God in your head or in your heart?” He was using the illustration of Jacob, who know all about God, but also was a schemer. He had an encounter with God, and it changed him. Susie Larson in Blessings for Every Day writes: “May you experience increase in every way. May your capacity to know the depths of His faithfulness grow continually. May your belief in your divine value deepen tremendously. And, in the days ahead, may your willingness to trust God with every detail of your life change profoundly. You are deeply loved, deeply called, and profoundly cared for. May you live out of this truth.
When God sent Jesus to live among us, calling him Emanuel, He told us that Jesus came that we might live abundantly. After confinement by COVID, this has a profound new feeling of freedom. Now that some of the regulations are being lifted and relaxed, we get a glimpse of what abundant living means. But in the God-sense, it means having the freedom to live our lives, confess our reliance on Him and ask forgiveness for our sins, knowing that He is in the business of loving us in this life and in the next. That’s not head knowledge! It’s so very real when Jesus reaches our hearts and we know we are His.
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