Have it all

Today I was thinking about how much God wants our heart.  Not just a part of it, He wants the whole thing.  He is jealous for our love because of how much He loves us.  I imagine a small child, trying to get the attention of his mother.  The child continues to poke her and call for her.  What she percieves as maybe an annoyance.  She is trying to get her work done, and doesn't have time for the child's games at the moment.  The child wants her full attention, but she can't give it to him.  God wants our full attention.  He will continue to poke us and sometimes in bigger ways than others.  He's not going to quit until He has your attention.

"You won't relent until You have it all...my heart is Yours."

An awesome girl, we'll call her Nel...told me that she sees humans as little art projects, and God is the artist.  He is the ultimate potter, and we are little clay pots.  We can be hard clay or soft clay.  Either way, God will have His way with us to turn us into something beautiful.  His masterpiece.  However, if we choose to be hard clay and not submit ourselves and our plans to Him, He's going to have to be a little more rough with the clay.  If we choose to submit ourselves and let God mold us, we are soft clay.  This doesn't mean life will be easy, it means that God will fully transform us into what He had in mind for us to be from the day we were born.

Lord, remind me that you are working on me for the best and help me to be soft and moldable.  Shape me so that You can use me for Your glory.

I'm not trying to say that we go through hard things because we are hard clay, because I think God lets us go through things for various reasons, and sometimes we don't know why.  I am suggesting that we should submit ourselves and our plans to God, because His plans are WAY better than our own.  If we do everything for ourselves, God will not relent.  Not until He has all of us.  Our whole heart-which includes our desires, our plans, everything.  He wants them because He loves us.