If you knew Me

If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me.

Jeremiah 29:13 (NLT)

If only you knew Me.

My dear child, you perceive Me as distant, not easily trusted, and someone people only wrote about because they needed a savior. But out of a place of desperation and searching, they found Me because they committed their lives to a lifetime pursuit of knowing Me wholeheartedly.

Your heart is aching for a savior kid. I love seeing you plan and direct your own ways, but I prefer to look at you from the driver's seat.

Time to stop.

It's time to reroute and let Me take over the steering wheel. Kid, we're in this together. I'd love to hear your opinion on things and I want you to ask all your questions. Draw those lines on the map of your heart and dream with eyes wide open. But trust Me to lead you through it all.

If you desire to hear My voice, read My word and it will transform you. As music fills the heart with joy, and as the rhythm lifts you out of your current circumstances, so will it be with My voice. It will fill your heart with joy and give you a reason to live life with new meaning and passion. I promise that you will never grow tired of My voice. It will always fill your thirst and hunger for more.

I want you to pursue the following virtues that I've laid out for you in My word. If you nurture them, you will know Me more intimately. I'm not your imaginary friend kid, I'm more real than your mind could ever perceive. Open up your heart to receive, be expectant, I'm going to reveal Myself to you like never before.

So devote yourselves to lavishly supplementing your faith with goodness, and to goodness add understanding, and to understanding add the strength of self-control, and to self-control add patient endurance, and to patient endurance add godliness, and to godliness add mercy toward your brothers and sisters, and to mercy toward others add unending love. Since these virtues are already planted deep within, and you possess them in abundant supply, they will keep you from being inactive or fruitless in your pursuit of knowing Jesus Christ more intimately. But if anyone lacks these things, he is blind, constantly closing his eyes to the mysteries of our faith, and forgetting his innocence—for his past sins have been washed away. For this reason, beloved ones, be eager to confirm and validate that God has invited you to salvation and claimed you as his own. If you do these things, you will never stumble. As a result, the kingdom’s gates will open wide to you as God choreographs your triumphant entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Messiah.

2 Peter 1:5-11 (TPT)

Love you, always and forever,

Dad

Benjamin Hastings - Homeward (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIB_iWXIRNs)