If you are a Facebook user you know that it sends notices to you that you might want to resend.  Yesterday I received a notice about the message I’d sent a year ago.  It was the message that my book was out and I was letting people know about it in case they would want it.  It was an excellent reminder of how God is continuing His work in me.  A year ago I was a basket case ahead of writing that message.  I spent a couple hours just wrestling with God about doing it at all.  However, He won and I wrote and sent the message.  Yesterday, when the notice came to possible resend it I simply did it knowing it was the right thing to do.  So much of the judgment I felt a year ago or feared a year ago is now gone.  It is funny writing this though as just a few days ago I wrote about my fear of bringing the book back inside the post office for the postmistress.  God isn’t done addressing all this fear but He is certainly relentless in helping me rid myself of it.

This morning I started my journal writing to Jesus yet again.  I had to backup and think God the Father and rewrite.  I know this likely seems silly, but for me it is critically important.  The intimacy God wants to have with me (us) is tied directly to our belief about our value to Him.  In my last couple months with dad before he passed away, I had confronted my past with him only to find that He had loved me and had even admired me.  This was awfully good for me to know but the 50+ years before this had a huge character defect to address.  I now knew this truth but deep within me I didn’t believe it.  This is what God is now showing me by my journaling to Him.  Even my devotional this morning read that God calls us friend.  In Exodus 33:11 He calls Moses friend.  The translation of meaning for friend is “intimate companion”.  I loved reading this because I know this is the present task God is wanting to show me and have me know well.  In my mind I know He wants each of us to know this well.  Mark 12:31 says we are to “love your neighbor as yourself”.  If we are to do this well, we need to know this intimate companionship with God the Father so this will be exactly what we pass along to others.  I’m kind of excited to get further into all of this.