Psalms 16:5 My choice is you, GOD, first and only. And now I find I’m your choice!
:6 You set me up with a house and yard. And then you made me your heir!

It really is this most incredible love story, and we are all writing our own chapter in it.

Haylie was on the computer talking with her friends and listening to music the other night when I went in to get my guitar. For some reason I was reminded of a song I used to sing back in high school so I stopped and sang it for her. It was a song by a group called “Bread” about someone who loved this girl by the name of Aubrey. It told of a love that was never quite mutual, never bloomed:

And Aubrey was her name,
A not so very ordinary girl or name.
But who’s to blame?
For a love that wouldn’t bloom
For the hearts that never played in tune.
Like a lovely melody that everyone can sing,
Take away the words that rhyme it doesn’t mean a thing.

And Aubrey was her name.
We triped the light and danced together to the moon,
But where was June.
No it never came around.
If it did it never made a sound,
Maybe I was absent or was listening to fast,
Catching all the words, but then the meaning going past,

But God I miss the girl,
And I’d go a thousand times around the world just to be
Closer to her than to me.

And Aubrey was her name,
I never knew her, but I loved her just the same,
I loved her name.
Wish that I had found the way
And the reasons that would make her stay.
I have learned to lead a life apart from all the rest.
If I can’t have the one I want, I’ll do without the best.

But how I miss the girl
And I’d go a million times around the world just to say
She had been mine for a day.

Upon reading this passage from Psalms it occurred to me just how passionate God is towards us. He has provided everything for our complete care and joy in life. He has gone to great ends, offering His own son to acquire rights to us and pay for our freedom. Every once in a while His efforts have been partially rewarded by a dance or a praise song. There has been dialogue, but more often than not, it’s been as if He were talking to a deaf ear and an unresponsive heart. Day by day He has observed our embrace of other passions and our willingness to do or say things that directly oppose His heart, yet He has continually forgiven and pursued us ever still.

How tragic is this story when, after a lifetime of pursuit by the One who is love and would have loved us the very best, we never quite choose Him in return, when the Father God is still longing to have really ‘had’ us for even one day. Oh, what goodness He would have been able to give, and how precious the pure times of fellowship in His presence. With just one day, He would have been able to transform everything about us, gratifying all the desires we could ever have had and providing an eternity of joyful and fulfilling life.

How delightful it is, though, when the spotlight is shown on the moment when a favorable glance goes His way, and the God of passionate love is noticed - and chosen. All the wooing has paid off and the object of His heart’s desire has finally granted Him audience. And, how amazing it is for the one who finally chooses the Father when it is discovered that all along the Father has been choosing him or her. He has always been their secret admirer, waiting in the wings with gifts and offers of a lifetime.

May this be a day of a Father’s gratified heart in us. Although we have maybe had a dance in the past, may there be one for this day in which He gets our full attention and our unobstructed gaze. May all that He wants to do in and through and for us have access and be made possible in our passionate return of His love. May we, for this day, be His.

Song of Solomon 7:10 I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me.

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