Imagine! Just imagine for a second. What if this were the case.
God: Have you ever felt like running away from everything you knew was right and everything you knew you should do just to see if anyone would care enough to stop you?
Me: Yes!
God: Have you ever done it?
Me: Well, I tried. I didn't get very far.
God: You know, I don't have the privilege of doing that. For I AM good and I AM faithful. It's who I am. I never leave and I never forsake so I don't have the ability to just run away in order to test out whether or not I am truly loved. But there are times when I would like to see what people would do if I could and did run. Since I can't run, the only option I have is to pretend. I have to create a fake stage and a fake backdrop and hold it in front of myself so that I can not be seen. I can not speak for I can not lie and to speak would ruin the whole experiment. So I stand behind a fake backdrop in silence trying to make it appear I have left. Why? I want to know I am loved. I want to know I am valued. I want to be sought out. I stand there hoping..."Stay. Please stay. Please find me. Will they? Will they do it? Will they sit and wait in faith that it is fake? Will they come back stage to look for me? Will they love me enough to run after me?" I watch as many people walk away and my heart sinks for they would not pursue me if I were to walk out on them. Nor do they believe that I never would. But then there are a few who sit and look at the fake backdrop that stands in front of my face. They sit waiting in faith for it to lift for they know it is not real. I also see those who simply just run back stage for they know it is a set up. Then I know. I truly know. They really do love me. They really do.
Could it be the darkest parts of life are really a cry for love from a God who is desperately in love? Just some perspective...
