Perfection In Front of Our Faces

Do you ever feel disheartened and drained?

Feeling like you’re giving the very best to everyone around you, and you can never count on the same back… not even when you need it the most?

It’s one thing to not get it back during the ‘good times’, but then you can’t even count on a friend to be there when you’re really going through something. That’s rough man.

Knowing you would spend hours hearing your friend or someone you care about vent or cry for hours if they needed, and you can’t really trust, open up to, or count on one person just to hear out your situation. Sometimes we just need someone to listen.

Maybe it’s just me, but I have my moments where this really eats at me.

Maybe it’s the fact that I've lost best friends that I thought were lifelong friends, over things that good friends and good people would never do. Maybe it's the fact where friendships and relationships have ended for seemingly no reason, and it left me thinking, 'maybe if I just had more to offer, I wouldn't be so easy to drop.'

Just being real.

At times I fight feeling emotionally drained and numb towards people.

I know in the spiritual realm, the enemy would love nothing more than to get my view and love for people tainted and to change by using all the hurt, betrayal, and disappointment I've gone through with people I trusted. I pray continually for God to create in a me a clean heart, to guard it, and to renew a fresh love for people on a daily basis, because of this.

My point of this though… is for every person who has ever felt this way… hurt, frustrated, and just sick of investing into one more person that you feel will only let you down in time, stop for a second.

Stop and ask yourself one question.

Are you doing the very same to God?

You get frustrated because people don’t follow through with their word, loyalty, and don’t invest anything back into you… and we have GOD, the creator of heaven and earth, of the sun, the moon, the stars, and everything that was ever beautiful, pure, lovely and perfect… we have GOD over here… just WAITING for us to love Him with everything within us.
Just WAITING for us to invest the time that we invest in other people, into HIM.
Just WAITING for us to go to HIM on one of those dark and lonely nights, and share everything that runs through our minds. Even if it makes no sense when it comes out.

We think its so cute and sweet to be in a relationship with a guy or girl and spend hours talking on the phone getting to know every detail about one another... Well God wants to have that with YOU!

God wants to be intimate with you!
He WAITS to have the relationship with us that we are so desperately wanting and desiring to have with people who are just that… they are just people.

They are human, and they are flesh…. And no one but God is perfect.

The Word says that even at our very best, we are as good as filthy rags!
So why are we surprised when we are let down?
Am I justifying people just being a straight up lousy friend to you? No.

But please, save yourself some heart ache and tears, and know that even the people who love you the most on this earth, will at some point or another be imperfect.

And even those who are literally perfect in your eyes at all times… there is going to come a day where God will call them home. I’m not trying to be morbid, I’m trying to be realistic.

God is LITERALLY THE ONLY ONE who will NEVER leave you, NEVER hurt you, NEVER put ill-intentions in actions towards you.

PLEASE, do yourself and your heart a favor and start investing yourself into God the way you would love for someone here on this earth to do to you. You will not be disappointed!
If you've been looking for somewhere you can rest your heart without worrying about it being shattered, place it in the hands of God. Let Him heal you, and restore you.

He will love you in a moment, the way every lover combined could love you in a lifetime.
He will be a friend like you've never had.

Having a relationship like that with God is literally the most beautiful and intimate thing you could ever imagine.

Below I've put some scriptures that will help remind you, just how special and important you are in God’s eyes.

When we find our worth in the love God has for us, we will never lack.

"Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need."

Matthew 6:33

"...or whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye"

Zechariah 2:8

"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end."

Jeremiah 29:11

"But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother."

Proverbs 18:24

"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."

Romans 8:28

"Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends."
John 15:13

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16

"No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Romans 8:37-39

“But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ— by grace you have been saved ...”
Ephesians 2:4-5

“…but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Romans 5:8

“The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.”
Zephaniah 3:17

“Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.”
1 Peter 5:6-7

“But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.”
Psalm 86:15