God Yearns For Our Love
GOD YEARNS FOR OUR LOVE
I asked God why He made this creation. "Was it necessary for You?" He answered, "No, but I had no one to share my joy." And so He became the Creator, but with one condition: He would impose on Himself the same yearning and seeking that he imposed on His creatures. Everyone is seeking something for the happiness he hopes it will give. But people don't find true happinessbecause every avenue of material gain ends in a blind alley. You want a thing only until you have it. When you get it, the pleasure diminishes until the joy is gone. Most people think there is nothing more to life than to be born, to marry, to produce children, to make money, to grasp at elusive pleasures, and to die. But that is not so. God says, "I have imposed the same difficulty on Myself as on My children. As they are not finding fulfilment, so have I not found what I want." And what is God longing for? Our love. Our attention. He has made it very difficult for Himself, because He gave man free will to seek Him or reject Him. He says, "I am pursuing every heart, waiting for My children to spurm my creation and turn toward Me." What a grand thought, to realize that He has imposed on Himself the same "exile" that He has imposed on us, that God is seeking something too - our love.
~ SRI SRI PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA, THE ETERNAL ROMANCE, THE DIVINE ROMANCE, pgs 442-443
GOD YEARNS FOR OUR LOVE
I asked God why He made this creation. "Was it necessary for You?" He answered, "No, but I had no one to share my joy." And so He became the Creator, but with one condition: He would impose on Himself the same yearning and seeking that he imposed on His creatures. Everyone is seeking something for the happiness he hopes it will give. But people don't find true happinessbecause every avenue of material gain ends in a blind alley. You want a thing only until you have it. When you get it, the pleasure diminishes until the joy is gone. Most people think there is nothing more to life than to be born, to marry, to produce children, to make money, to grasp at elusive pleasures, and to die. But that is not so. God says, "I have imposed the same difficulty on Myself as on My children. As they are not finding fulfilment, so have I not found what I want." And what is God longing for? Our love. Our attention. He has made it very difficult for Himself, because He gave man free will to seek Him or reject Him. He says, "I am pursuing every heart, waiting for My children to spurm my creation and turn toward Me." What a grand thought, to realize that He has imposed on Himself the same "exile" that He has imposed on us, that God is seeking something too - our love.
~ SRI SRI PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA, THE ETERNAL ROMANCE, THE DIVINE ROMANCE, pgs 442-443