"GOD IS ALWAYS PREVIOUS"

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

“God is always previous,” is the way the theologian von Hugel put it.

“You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you,” is the way, Aslan put it, the lion in the Narnia Chronicles.

The way the apostle John put it was, “We love because he first loved us.”

Maybe, too, that is why we long

“God’s yearning for us stirs up our longing in response,” said Howard Macy in Rhythms of the Inner Life.” “God’s initiating presence may be ever so subtle—an inward tug of desire, a more-than-coincidence meeting of words and events, a glimpse of the beyond in a storm or in a flower—but it is enough to make the heart skip a beat and to make us want to know more.”

(Ken Gire is one of my favorite writers and his book, Windows of the Soul is one of my favorite books of all time, and I have read a lot of books. The thoughts for today's post are from this book.)