The joy of our salvation

It is about you!  In fact it is all about you!  Why do you think fresh cut grass smells so good?  Why does chocolate taste so good?  Why do waves on a beach sound so good?  Why does polished wood feel so good?  Or why does a sun set look so good?  And why is there an infinite number of these things?   I do not see how anyone could live on this planet in this universe and not believe that someone is consumed with you.  This universe seems to be made to make us think that someone really likes us but more than that, it’s almost like they are enamored with us.  The reason we so often live lives completely unaware of this nurturing relationship is that we do not know who we are.  This is very important because the universe was made for who we really are not who we think we are, who we are told we need to be and most often who we are striving to be. This sets up two ongoing conditions that deny us the joy of our salvation.  One, we fail to experience the joy of someone being in love with us and two we fail to ever know who we really are.  If you place this in a common context it would be like an unbelievably wealthy relation wanting desperately to make you their heir while you unknowingly shun all their offerings because you don’t believe the offer is extended to you. What a sorrowful state of poverty.  But we do not need to stay in the constant state of “sorrowful poverty” but it is a difficult thing to overcome.  We have to practically reject all that society stands for and more difficult still, we must live above what most Christian culture in American has adopted as normal.  It is a very difficult thing to turn our backs on what we have for a lifetime of being taught the “way of the Lord”.