A Betrayal of Love

I received this email today and wanted to pass it on. It is powerful stuff. John Eldredge is one of my favorite authors. He speaks in ways I can process. He has insights that I admire. As my friend Brian Presson used to say, "God saved us in our worst 5 minutes." This daily reading by Eldredge speaks right in to that for sure. God is gracious, even when we were/are at our worst. Wow. He is faithful, even when are faithless.


A Betrayal of Love

Can you imagine if on your honeymoon one of you sneaked off for a rendezvous with a perfect stranger? Adam and Eve kicked off the honeymoon by sleeping with the Enemy. Then comes one of the most poignant verses in all Scripture: "What is this you have done?" (Gen. 3:13). You can almost hear the shock, the pain of betrayal in God's voice. The fall of Adam and Eve mustn't be pictured as a crime like theft, but as a betrayal of love. In love God creates us for love, and we give him the back of our hand. Why? Satan gets us to side with him by sowing the seed of doubt in our first parents' minds: "God's heart really isn't good. He's holding out on you. You've got to take things into your own hands." And Paradise was lost.

Yet there was something about the heart of God that the angels and our first parents had not yet seen. Here, at the lowest point in our relationship, God announces his intention never to abandon us but to seek us out and win us back. "I will come for you." Grace introduces a new element of God's heart. Up till this point we knew he was rich, famous, influential, even generous. Behind all that can still hide a heart that is less than good. Grace removes all doubt.

An exert from the book, The Sacred Romance, by John Eldredge

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