Yesterday, I went to the store to pick up a few things. While I was in the checkout line preparing to pay for my items, my eyes caught the cover of one of those National Enquirer style magazines. This cover sported a picture of Rhianna and the caption read "Rhianna's Exes Fight Over Her".... and then I had the thought. It was a fleeting thought.. but it was a thought nonetheless.
I thought "I wish two guys would fight over me."
I paid for my items and headed towards the door. As I went outside, I heard God say to me "Do you not think that I am fighting for you?" He said "Daughter, I want you to pay attention to me. I want your love and affection. I want to be your Provider. Not only am I fighting for those things... for your mind and your heart.. I am fighting with another for your very SOUL."
In one instant, God reminded me that He IS fighting for me. He longs for my attention and my time. He wants nothing more than to sit and talk with me when my attention isn't focused on something else (which, lately, isn't very often). He wants to show me the beauty in the every day things that I walk by every single day without even really paying attention. The things that can't be bought. A sunrise. A sunset. Flowers, trees, rainbows and beautiful blue skies.
He reminded me that He is the one that wants me to run to Him when I am lonely and hurting.. when I am angry or afraid. He wants me to find my value and my worth in Him and to see who He sees when I look in the mirror and am unable to meet my own gaze.
He reminded me that He is fighting the enemy of my soul for my very life.
I may never have my picture on the cover of a magazine but I will go to bed every night and wake up every morning with the knowledge that the One who created the universe loved me enough to send His Son to the cross to die for me and that His grace abounds in my life every day. That He will not leave me nor will He forsake me and that He will never stop fighting another for me.
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