To whom I belong:

It’s not often I hear God speak to me.  I feel his presence often, and His gentle nudges of the right things to do, (how often and how well I following those nudges is an entirely different topic) but rarely if ever do I hear Him speak to me.  Tonight I heard His voice. 

I have been consumed with an idol, though I didn't know it until this evening.  I have been homesick to the point of anxiousness for Colorado.  I have been praying and praying for peace and contentment, but instead of focusing on the beauty that lies all around me where I am, I have been exacerbating the problem by thinking about the scenery I miss.

But our God is a jealous God, and he wants His children to be His, nothing and no one else’s. 

This evening, an angry and jealous God called out to me, “You do not belong to Colorado, you belong to Me!”

Stunned.

Stunned one, because of the force of the words, two, because God, GOD, was speaking to me, and three, because in that moment I realized what I had been doing.  I had been making an idol out of a state, a location, a scenery.  My treasures have been in a state, and not with God.  I do not belong to Colorado, I do not belong to New Mexico, I belong to God.  He is worth more than, and can give more than, anything on earth we set our hearts, hopes, and dreams on.  He is my God, I am His child, and He calls me to be His!

1 John 3:1a:  See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!