Why God?

Who will always feed you?
Who will always forgive you?
Who will always lead you away from danger?
Who will always deliver you from evil?

Only someone who truly loves you.

If you knew someone like that, and you were afraid, or needed something urgently, or just wanted to sit quietly with someone, wouldn't you want to go to them? Wouldn't you look forward to spending time with them? Wouldn't you love just being with them?

But how often do you listen to everyone except God! How often do you let the media tell you who you are or aren't. Or how often you believe what other people tell you about yourself. Or maybe you let the past - or your fear of the future - define you!

So try something different. Try listening to what God, Love, is saying about you. Listen to the Lord's Prayer.

Jesus shows us through the Lord's Prayer why you should listen to Someone who truly and completely loves you, why you should listen to God:

* God cares for you deeply and individually. Your Father-Mother God knows you by name.

* His nature is completely Good. God's relationship with you is priceless, sacred, enduring, adorable.

* God's unconditional love is present with you here and now.

* Every wonderfully perfect and inspiring and challenging and fun - heavenly - condition is God's only will for you.

* God knows your need before you ask Him. He supplies your daily needs, in both practical and spiritual ways. And your only need really is for Grace for today, feeding all famished affections.

* The Love you feel from God awakens your love for others. You discover forgiveness as a power that breaks the dreams of lack and doubt and enemies.

* And that Love leads you away from away from the trials of a personal ego and its junk food tempations. Because divine Love gives you a different perspective. Love shows you that you deserve something much better. Love delivers you into discovering your wholeness, your healthiness, your holiness as His likeness.

And how does God, Love do this?

Because God is already present with you. God is always the only real power there is. And God, Love, already includes you as His completely satisfied image and likeness. Right here where you are already. Right now.

So look outward and upward!

Look at all you have to give.
Look at all you have to live.
Give your gifts of love without fear or hesitation.
God has given them to you for a reason.

And the reason is this:

You are His gift, His blessing, to the world.