A letter to you

Just a letter the Lord has been writing on my heart and that he will use me simply to type, nothing more..its for you.

Beloved,
I love you deeply and fully. Come, love, enter my rest. You will find life in me. Dwell in me. And I have come to the earth that you may dwell in my fullness. In Christ all my fullness was pleased to dwell. Christ has ushered you into this fullness. Let go of that which holds your affection. Place all of yourself in me. Come, hide in my wings. We will fly together. All i ask is that you come and know me. Make no mistake, I ask everything of you. I will make you perfect. You have placed yourself on my throne and placed my Son, my first love, on your cross. In order to put him on the throne, you must take your place on the cross. I will ask you to die every day. Its impossible-but in me it becomes possible. Know, darling, the most dependable thing in the world is my love. My love will not perish, when the world itself dissolves, it will be as strong as it is today. Invest in eternity. You have nothing to lose. Do not be afraid to love well. Love well and love hard. Love expecting rejection. Love knowing that very, very few will place themselves on the cross. Love me and begin to live and journey in the length and depth and strength of my love for you. You have no idea..As you come to find fullness in me, as you let go of your other sources of counterfeit love, loving will come easier. I loved you first. I will be with you always. I will not fail. You would fail if fighting on your own. Its a losing battle against yourself. You cannot possibly overcome an affliction bigger than you. You cannot fix a problem you are a part of. But take heart, I have overcome the world. I am far more than all that you are fighting. Come to me and I will fight through you. I will fight for you-in fact I fought as hard as was possible and I won. It is finished. But there are so many people my heart aches for, so many humans who need me and desire the depth and the goodness and the holiness they were created for, and I have chosen to usher you into this rescue mission. Come to me sweet love, come daily. Come constantly, step down from the throne and run into my embrace. Yes I ask that you take up the cross, that you lose your life. But not alone. I went first. And I will go with you. And I promise, I promise on myself because there is nothing higher on which  I could make this covenant, that I will betroth myself to you in faithfulness and righteousness and that you will really know me only in following Him, only in dying to yourself and living to me. I love you.

Again, I love you.

-Abba


(side note: I attribute the cross-throne analogy to Craig, my college life leader, it really spoke to my heart. Also the verse this is founded in (though there are many) is:

I appeal to you therefore, my brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, his good perfect and pleasing will.
 Romans 12:1-2