“If you wait, your heavenly Father will pick you up, carry you out into the night, and make your life sparkle. He wants to dazzle you with the wonder of his love” (Paul E. Miller, A Praying Life).

It took 400 blogs, but Ive finally come full circle. I started out wanting to write blogs about the amazing love God has for His people, how He is very fond of you and of me.

Then somewhere along the way, I had a blog or two that caught on with more people. I think I realize now that blogging became too much about how many people were reading my posts each day.

I’m now back to the point where I blog for me, to remind myself of the goodness of God. It’s one thing to know it in my head, but to see it all in black and white on a computer screen makes it more real to me for some reason.

I may be redundant and I may be that one-note symphony, but I don’t care. What I do care is that you really know down to the very fiber of your being that Abba God loves you, is in love with you, gave up everything for you, and wants you. That’s all.

It may not be clever or witty or original, but it’s true. It’s probably been said better in other places, but I only want to say it again in my own way.

Max Lucado said that Jesus would rather die for you than live without you. He did. He died for you rather than choose a comfortable life as a carpenter, unknown to the world and free from misunderstanding and hatred and torture and death.

He did choose the nails. He chose to bear your pain and carry your sins and die for you.

If I write 400 more blogs, I hope to keep saying just this: Jesus thought you were to die for and still does.