Oh, I want to be like Him!  How the cry rings out of my soul, and echoes again and again.  How I want my heart to be transformed … not just conformed.  His yearnings, His love, His visions all stir from deep within my heart, and give me not a moment’s languish here on this earth.  To think that He could possibly inhabit me totally and completely seems so impossible, a weak and sinful human being like me.  But faith says He will, and He does.  If He will, He may.  Even so, come, Lord Jesus!  Slay every morsel of self.  Cut down every high and lofty thought that is selfish.  Inhabit my soul, my heart, my love, my life, with the incredible essence of Yourself, Your love, Your life.  For You have created each one for a specific purpose.  There is a plan, though different for every person, it is all the same to you … to bring glory to Your Name.  Please help your children to lift up their feeble eyes and gaze into their source of life, of strength, and see the purpose for which they each are created.  You are amazing!  Words fail me.  The joy seems to burst forth from faith deep within, and a human heart can scarcely contain Your joy.  Oh, where shall I go to express Your love?

And You say, “Right here, my child. Right here are your loved ones.  Your husband, your children are here with hearts just like yours.  Let My love fill you to overflowing and let it spill out on their hearts every day.  Intercede in the Spirit for their eternal destiny. Love them. Forgive them. And love them some more.  And there.  There are the people all around you.  When you ask them how they are, mean it.  Let my Love overflow out of your heart and pour over their discouragements, their turmoil, and their pain.  Lift their trembling, fearful hearts up to Me, for in Me is all the healing, all the Love, all the forgiveness they are looking for.  Let them see through your very existence that My love for them is established and unchanging.  Let them see by your willingness to believe and walk in My forgiveness for your own heart that I have forgiven them, I will never stop loving them.  And let them see by your willingness to release them to Me, their only true Source of love, that I respect their free will, and I give them the choice to accept My unfathomable love for them, and oh, the anguish of true love … I also give them the choice to reject it and walk away from Me.  That is love.  It protects, pursues, and weeps longingly.  But it never forces.”  

You are God.  And I love you!!