God Loves to Hang Out With Us

The beautiful, mysterious and wondrous thing about love is how simple it is. Religion is about "do's and don'ts," but love is about enjoying each other's presence - friendship and intimacy and secrets. When God made Adam and Eve, He lived with them in the garden. I now live, and will continue to live, in the simplicity of the Garden: the simple enjoyment of His presence and letting Him enjoy ours. And Jesus is so enough - He is always enough.

If we go before Him every moment of every day with the awareness of His immense and unfathomable love for us, it won't be hard to get into worship. It won't take two fast songs and a moderately slow one to get into an attitude of worship and receiving. Striving, trying to work our way in is not how God designed it. He made love better than that.

He is with you, He lives inside of you, He is literally, literally closer than a heart beat. The reason why He lives inside of us is because He desires communion, fellowship, friendship, intimacy with us. What a Daddy! What an amazing Friend! He has easy access to us, and so we have easy access to Him.

Coming into the knowledge of that - the awareness, the acknowledgement, the freedom, the rest of that - changes everything.