How Does God Feel About Our Response?

This morning as I was waking up beside my wife, I rolled over to her and lay close to her, enjoying the warmth and softness of her body. She did not move. Whether or not she was conscious of my nearness, I don't know. But it set me off thinking about another love that people may or not respond to- God's love.

In so many ways and times, God wants to be close to us and desires our response as well as that of the whole world of people, whether persons are conscious or not of that fact. Some people are partly conscious of God's love and may have been as my wife. They may choose to respond or not respond and “snooze on” in their indifference. I wonder how God feels about that indifference.  No doubt he comes to many if not most people many times, and receives only partial response of returned love, or worse, even no response even though his love should have easily been sensed.

The irony is that God loves people so much and would do many things, almost every conceivable thing, for people to know that he loves them. No doubt he comes again and again and in many ways, hoping that somehow persons would turn around and embrace him. It seems if persons knew how much He loved them they would love him in the most intimate way possible, trying to return the love they feel from him. But it seems most people respond only partly and rationalize that they really do love him, while going on in their own way most of the time.

All this make me wonder how God feels about this half-hearted response of persons, or even less by people who are oblivious to his nearness and with whom he desire a reciprocal response. He being of infinite love, probably never gives up as long as people have consciousness and are able to respond in this life. Again and again and in many ways he reveals his nearness, providing for us in all our needs, giving us a beautiful environment in nature, and living in us by his Spirit as much we will allow him  to. But it bothers me that people can be so oblivious to his attempt to be near and experience his deep fellowship. What joy he could share with us if we only responded to him fully! What more do we want of him? Is our lonely life better without his closeness? How can we be satisfied by ourselves and be not responding when he does come as close as he can be, and in so many ways?