“Now, therefore,” says the Lord,
“Turn to Me with all your heart,
With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.”
So rend your heart, and not your garments;
Return to the Lord your God,
For He is gracious and merciful,
Slow to anger, and of great kindness;
And He relents from doing harm.
-Joel 2:12-13
I saw a meme yesterday that said, "if I say I'm calling you back just go ahead and enjoy the rest of your day". It made me laugh because sometimes I am guilty of that. I have good intentions to call you back, but I can get busy with other things and forget. Unlike me, God does not forget, and I believe that He is calling you back even now. Obviously, He is not making a phone call to you, but I believe that He is calling you back to a place in Him that you may have wandered from. He is calling you back to your position of prayer and peace. He is calling you back to spend time with Him away from all the noise and distractions.
As a wife, I know the pressures and responsibilities that we face. I know how easy it is to become focused on so many things that you aren't really focused on anything. I know what it is to get busy doing things and forget why you are doing them. So, I am sharing with you the message that God shared with me: I'm calling you back - back to His presence, back to His way of doing things, back to caring more about what He thinks and less about what others think. He is calling you back to His plan for your life and marriage.
Listen, God - the Creator of the universe - wants you. He sent Jesus to the cross in order to redeem you back to Himself. Yes, He wants your marriage to be successful. Yes, He wants your ministry to be successful. He wants your career, business, and life to be successful, but more than any of that He simply wants you. And if you really want to be successful, you should want Him more than anything else.
So, He is calling you back. Will you answer?
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