Jesus the GREAT initiator

These past couple of weeks some things have stood out to me such as: the simple fact that Christianity isn't about Loving God but it is about How he loves us! So many times we get caught up in making sure that we show God how much we love him, we try and preform works and we try to initiate things to please the father! What we do not realize is that Jesus is the great initiator! It all started when Adam was in the garden and Jesus created the tree of knowledge and evil. Alot of people ask why would God put something in the garden if he didn't want Adam to sin in the first place? From that Question alot of people have had hard feelings against God because they cannot believe that a God of Love would do something like that. This is so totally wrong!!!! Jesus put the tree in the middle of the garden so when Adam looked at it and said to him self " man that tree looks so good I just want some, it looks so amazing and beautiful I wonder what the fruit tastes like"...Oh but God YOU are better Lord you are better then any fruit I might eat and you told me not to so I wont! But Adam chose to eat of the tree later instead of choosing God. The point is is that Jesus puts desires in our hearts so HE can fill them! and when we turn to him and look at him instead of the things of this world or our desires it ravishes his heart! Song of Solomon 6:5 Jesus says "turn your eyes from me they overwhelm me." One Glance from us ravishes his heart! So many times we are under the impression that if we don't do our quiet time or we forget to pray before we eat Jesus is Mad at us and that is why bad things happen to us! NO! Jesus wants a relationship, He LONGS for our voice, he longs for us! Jesus Initiates and ALL we are called to do is respond. When we try and do things we end up in failure. All Jesus wants us to do is RESPOND. The thief on the cross next to Jesus did NOTHING for Jesus Except respond to Jesus's love, and Jesus said "today you will be with me in paradise." Something That I highly encourage everyone to do is read the song of Solomon thinking about you as the bride and Jesus as the bridegroom, at first alot of things may seem akward but when you really figure out what certain verses mean...you will be so overwhelmed with how much the father loves his children and How much Jesus loves us....Jesus Knows us he knows what were going to do before we do it in yet one glance from us ravishes his heart...he already knows were going to look at him but yet when we do, it RAVISHES him to where he cant even look! Jesus is truly Amazing and he loves us the same on the days we sin the most and have the worst thoughts to the days where we feel the most holy and do Amazing works ect. Wow THAT IS MY GOD! .....Just to clear things up though, what I'm not saying is to not do anything for Christ, but when we respond to him and look at him Good works come out of it and we don't feel pressured to do them or feel like were striving. :)