Making the First Move
I am all about metaphors. God speaks to me in metaphors. Maybe that's weird, maybe it's not. You tell me. Maybe that's why I'm a songwriter. But that is beside the point. I think God loves to speak to us in metaphors. Not only because He is a creative guy Himself, but because He knows that because He is so "other-than" from us, there is no way we could grasp His character without likening it to things we already know. Like the metaphor of a father. That's a good one. God is the ultimate and perfect Father. The One who abounds in love and goes to the ends of the earth, no, the ends of the heavens, to care for us. There's a song called "Good Good Father" by Housefires. It's probably best for you to go buy it on iTunes this very moment, but I digress... Metaphors. I think that anything in this world that is a metaphor for what God does for us or who He is to us is a good thing for us to take note of. Now bear with me, I'm