Evergreen Romance

How many of you love a great love story? My favourite ones are Darcy and Elizabeth in Jane Austen's classic "Pride and Prejudice" and also of Rhett Butler and Scarlet O' Hara in "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell. Your heart aches as you go through the story and feel so much for the protagonists - both the man and the woman who are caught up in pride and prejudice and oblivious of the love in each other's heart. It is a similar story with God's love for us and I believe it is the best love story ever.

Before everything was created, God in His trinity was in perfect communion and love. Then God created the angels and invited them to His heart and home and one of them, Lucifer decided that he wanted to take centre stage and be the main character and rebelled against God. This broke God's heart. Inpsite of God's heartbreak, He decided to create man and woman with a free will to choose Him, so that He could commune with them and enjoy close commanionship and a deep romance.
Ephesians 1:4-6,12 (The Message)
Long before he laid down earth's foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love. Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ. (What pleasure he took in planning this!) He wanted us to enter into the celebration of his lavish gift-giving by the hand of his beloved Son.....Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone.

Like an unfeeling callous spouse who sleeps with a stranger on a honeymoon, Adam and Eve spurned God's love for them and believed in Satan's lies that God is holding out on them though they had no reason to believe in that. Paradise was lost and God's heart was deeply wounded.
Isaiah 57:8
Behind your doors and your doorposts you have put your pagan symbols. Forsaking me, you uncovered your bed, you climbed into it and opened it wide; you made a pact with those whose beds you love, and you looked on their nakedness.

Yet inspite of being rejected, God instead of abandoning us, decides to go all out and woo us back! He decides to bestow on us grace and the long love story of His pursuit of humanity begins and continues with the offer of His own life - life of His only Son to woo us back into a deep romance with Him.
Jeremiah 2:2, 23b, 24 ;31:3 (The Message)
I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the desert, through a land not sown...What fault did your fathers find in me, that they strayed so far from me? ....You are a swift she-camel running here and there, a wild donkey accustomed to the desert, sniffing the wind in her craving— in her heat who can restrain her? ....
I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.

Do you realise the love that God has for you? Do you realise that He is pursuing you endlessly with an everlasting evergreen love.... Only He could love you this way, so deeply. Don't break His heart again and spurn His love, return your love to Him and make this greatest love story a beautiful one. It is now upto you... give Him your love, your heart, your life, your all.