He Loves Me

DEVOTION
GALATIONS
HE LOVES ME
Gal 4:6-7
6 Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father." 7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.
NIV
God testified to the condition of David’s heart by saying David was a man after his own heart. I have always wanted that to be on my head stone, or at least to have people remember me as a man after God’s own heart, but here I can see that is actually the case not because of how I behave, but because God sent the Spirit of Christ into my heart. How could I not than be a man after God’s own heart? Because of his Spirit in my heart I actually can call out to God using that same term Christ himself used. I can have that close personal relationship with God, as a son has with his father. I would think that alone should be enough to keep me from doing anything which displeases God, but unfortunately it does not. I sure want to please him all time, but why don’t I? Is it that easy for self to get in the way? He made me the way I am. He created me with this capability of doing my own thing. I know he desires me to follow after his way of my own free choice, which I believe I am doing. He has sent the Spirit of Christ into my heart, I know that, I sense him there, yet he allows me to still go my way, if I slip up and decide to behave a certain way. I know it is my choice. I know he directs me, gives me the right way, the right choice, and I still have to listen, to hear, to pay attention to the Spirit within me and choice to respond, choice to act, choice to react, choice to behave in a manner which would please God. Do I just forget to listen? Or does that self part of me just want the control? I am fully aware of my own self. It is the selfish self-seeking, self-centered, self-absorbed part of me. That part of me is as far from pleasing God as the Earth is from the edge of the Universe. Why does it have to be that way? When the Spirit arrived should not he have taken control? But that is not how God wants it either. His Spirit is within me so I can know God better and understand him better and have a closer relationship with me as his son. And as his son, I do have an inheritance beyond my wildest dreams. I think it all comes down to the simple truth God just loves me. He gives me his very best even knowing I am not perfect. He loves me!