{"id":11644,"date":"2022-03-22T20:56:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T20:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/?p=11644"},"modified":"2023-06-30T14:56:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T14:56:37","slug":"god-who-will-love-me-now-are-you-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2022\/03\/god-who-will-love-me-now-are-you-there\/","title":{"rendered":"God, Who Will Love Me Now? Are You There?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div>\n<p>In my twenties, my world changed. When I ended a relationship that I thought held my future, I felt bereft and lost. Who will love me now? I wondered through my tears. And now I don\u2019t have any friends, I moaned, thinking of how I\u2019d left my high-school and university friends in Minnesota for the excitement of living in the nation\u2019s capital, surrounding myself with those who knew my ex-fianc\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my pain, I turned to God. Are you there? I cried. I can\u2019t hear you. More silence. More tears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the next months, in great need, I returned to God again and again, not knowing where else to go. And as the weeks passed, something changed. Through the help of the Holy Spirit, I started to quiet my inner voices\u2014those saying I was worthless and hopeless\u2014as I asked God to meet me. I read the Bible, searching for God as I hungered for love. As he responded, I felt at times as if the words jumped off the page and into my heart. My desire to know God and experience his love fueled my reading, and I woke up earlier and earlier so I could feast on his Word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I started to copy down passages from the Bible, applying the promises to my life. Although I read without much reference to their original context, I felt God speaking through them to my hurting, yearning heart. For instance, I read Isaiah 43:1-2 and reveled in the words, adapting them as if God was whispering them to me: \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid, Amy, for I\u2019ve saved you. You\u2019re passing through the waters, but don\u2019t be afraid, for I am with you. The rivers won\u2019t sweep over you, for I am the Lord your God.\u201d When I reached verse 4, I wondered at the amazing promise of God: \u201cYou\u2019re precious and honored in my sight. And I love you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lord, you <a href=\"\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2015\/09\/loved-by-the-father\/\">love <\/a>me? I asked. Do you really love me? Is this promise meant for me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I paused, I sensed a nudge in my spirit, with a resounding Yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought, Well, it is right there written in the Bible, that God loves his people. He must really love me, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I read each day from the Scriptures and poured out my feelings to God, I started to understand in a new way that I was made in his image and worth loving. I came to believe that these nudges of grace were loving assurances from God. Through my new way of hearing God through his Word, I was changed forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>The Joys and Challenges of Prayer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s why I\u2019m so excited about <a href=\"\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2019\/01\/how-god-speaks-in-prayer\/\">prayer<\/a>. The Creator of the universe, who is beyond and above us, yearns for a relationship with us. He loves to communicate with us. He receives our longings and our praise, our petitions and our thanks to him. Not only does he respond to the cries of our hearts and the offhand prayers we utter, but he changes us. He makes us more like himself through the working of the Holy Spirit in our lives, and we become more compassionate and caring, more self-controlled and outward looking, wiser and with greater understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But prayer can be hard, too. We might not sense God\u2019s presence in our daily lives, or we become disappointed with the circumstances we face. We might feel that God has let us down and wonder if he really is good and loving. Or we might find ourselves in a rut, checking off a daily time of devotions as a duty, not a joy, while uttering a quick prayer before moving on to something seemingly more pressing. How, then, can we reignite our first love? How can we not only enjoy our communication with God but allow him to change us too?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The good news is that God partners with us, meeting us where we\u2019re at and helping us communicate with him. God will take your desire to grow closer and magnify it, even as a mustard seed grows into a big tree. Know that you\u2019re not doing this on your own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Know, too, that God will help you build healthy prayer habits into your life. Although habits don\u2019t ensure that we\u2019ll automatically respond prayerfully to situations of stress, anxiety, or even positive happenings, they increase the likelihood that we will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe, though, you\u2019d find it helpful to redefine how you see prayer. We can easily think we\u2019ve failed if each morning we don\u2019t study the Bible and pray. I\u2019m not knocking that kind of committed devotion, but I wouldn\u2019t want that practice to be my only way of praying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You might wonder if God is really there or your prayers are \u201cworking\u201d if you don\u2019t encounter God in some way\u2014such as through a mighty mystical experience\u2014as you pray. It\u2019s true that God sometimes meets us in amazing ways; we may feel cushioned by his love or have a sense of unseen realities being revealed to us. But the wisdom of Christians throughout the centuries, including those seen as mystics, is that these transcendent experiences are neither the norm in the everyday lives of followers of Christ nor the goal of those seeking to communicate with him. For if we view prayer as a portal to some mystical plane, we can turn the act of praying into something we find intimidating, disappointing, or exclusionary of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God loves you dearly and yearns to meet with you. He might have a specific gift to impart to you, but he might just want to spend time with you. I\u2019m reminded of Dan Rather\u2019s interview with Mother Teresa, when the newscaster asked her what she said during her prayers. She responded, \u201cI listen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather asked, \u201cWhat does God say to you?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said, \u201cHe listens.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-container-4 wp-block-columns coblocks-author-columns has-background\" style=\"background-color:#8C8C971A;padding-top:2.5rem;padding-right:2.5rem;padding-bottom:2.5rem;padding-left:2.5rem\">\n<div class=\"wp-container-1 wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\"><img alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-container-3 wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:75%\">\n<p><strong>Amy Boucher Pye<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>is a writer, speaker, and spiritual director. The author of several books, including the award-winning\u00a0<em>Finding Myself in Britain<\/em>, she writes devotional thoughts regularly, including for the globally recognized Our Daily Bread. She enjoys leading retreats, including around the United Kingdom and in Spain, and her MA in Christian spirituality is from the University of London. She runs the Woman Alive book club, delighting in matching up readers with great books. She and her English husband, a vicar, live with their teenaged children in North London. Find her at amyboucherpye.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-container-2 wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button alignleft\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/tag\/amy-boucher-pye\/\">More from Amy<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/\/p\/7-ways-to-pray\/9781641583770?utm_source=the+disciplemaker&amp;utm_medium=god+who+will+love+me+now+3.22.2022&amp;utm_campaign=7+ways+to+pray+2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1968\" height=\"2952\" src=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/09\/978-1-64158-377-0.PT01.png\" alt=\"7 Ways to Pray book cover\" class=\"wp-image-9538\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my twenties, my world changed. When I ended a relationship that I thought held my future, I felt bereft and lost. 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