Why We Run from God's Love

By Ed Cyzewski

Most Christians can recite John 3:16: "God so loved the world..." but many doubt that God truly loves them. We all think of caveats for God's love, struggle to pray, or fail to experience God's acceptance. Doubting God's love deprives us of what God freely gives: adoption into God's family. 

I wrote this book for myself. I run away from God’s love. It’s something I’m ashamed of and something that I needed to understand. I needed to crack my defenses and blinders. I hope that my fellow runaways will start asking what keeps them from God so they can stop running and find the perfect rest of God.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ed Cyzewski
• Release date: Mar 4, 2015
• ISBN: 9781507021347

Ed Cyzewski

Ed Cyzewski writes at www.edcyzewski.com where his love for prayer, writing, and bad puns come together. He is the author of Pray, Write, Grow: Cultivating Prayer and Writing Together, A Path to Publishing, A Christian Survival Guide, and other books. He is a graduate of Biblical Theological Seminary, avid gardener, and devotee to New York style pizza. Find him on twitter: @edcyzewski. Subscribe to his e-newsletter at www.edcyzewski.com for new book releases, discounts, and tips on writing and publishing. 

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Preface

This is the little e-book I didn’t want to write and the little book I had to write. I didn’t write it for anyone other than myself. I share it only because I suspect I’m not alone. It’s a little book that I wrote on blind faith. I knew where to start, but I didn’t know where it would lead.

I don’t know why things unfolded the way they did, but over the past year I struggled to pray. It could have been exhaustion from the new baby. It could have been the numerous book and freelance projects that hit at the same time. It could have been my own wayward heart. It could have been my inability to manage my time. For whatever reason, I prayed more in faith that God could show up than by experience. I felt lonely and empty both when I sat down to pray and when I got up from praying.

The one thing God kept impressing on my mind over the past year was this: Write about this season. Just start.

I like to know where a book is going.

I want to test the ideas out on my blog.

I like to outline.

I knew where I should start, and so I began. Each step forward led to the next step.

There may not be anything revolutionary in what follows, but I’ll just say this: I sat down to write this book feeling empty and hopeless. By the time I finished, I had renewed hope and a deeper experience of God’s love.

I wrote this book for myself. I run away from God’s love. It’s something I’m ashamed of and