It is the
pride of man to believe that we can love God on our own. This is the teaching
of the Bible (1 John 4:19). We love God because God loved God. Meaning, the
only reason we can love God is that Jesus came and loved His Father. Now, do
not think that all we need to do is ask WWJD (What Would Jesus Do). No, we need
to be regenerated and saved by Jesus Christ in order to love God. When we are
saved, “God-love” is stamped or engraved into our hearts, souls, minds, and
wills. In order to be saved, God’s righteousness (Christ) must be imputed to
us. If this is true with salvation, then it is true with loving God. God-love
must be imputed. If God did not love us,
we could not love Him. We take our human (contaminated) love and project
that toward God. We cannot love God the
way we love people. We must love people the way we love God. God’s love is
not human. The way we love has to reflect God or it is not love.
We, as
children of God, cannot know how to love our Father if our Father does not show
us how to love Him. If the cross
(Christ) is not seen and understood we cannot love God and cannot understand
God-love. If we love what God has done for us, but not love God for being
God, then we really do not love Him. Love is more than devotion; it is also
about affection. We have been trained that love must focus on “me.” Yet, love
leads and focuses on the one that makes us eternally happy: God. Love must
start in a deeper place: delighting in
God. The way you know if you truly love
God is by being satisfied in Him. He must
be your all, not His stuff. The only hope you have to loving God fully and
forever is by God loving God through you by the Holy Spirit. Loving God starts
and ends with God.
Daily Prayer:
O God, I desire to be satisfied in You. Help me love You the way You
love, not the way I have trained by sin to love. Help me delight in, You being
God, not in your stuff. Help my love for You. Help my love for others. In Jesus
Name. Amen.
Daily Challenge:
· Today read 1 John 4
· Ask yourself all day: Am I satisfied in God being God?
· Repent where you need to.
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