Psalm 115:1
I love the Lord, because He has heard my voice and my supplications.
"I love Jesus!"
"I love God!"
"I love the Holy Spirit!"
If you want to see some raised eyebrows, proclaim that during a conversation.
The one thing I hear over and over again is "How can you love someone you can't see?"
I pondered that for a while.
I tried to come up with some theological sounding answers. Those never work because it sounds like your trying to intelligent about something that has you stumped also.
So do you fall in love with this Jesus?
Simple.
By hanging out with Him, and with others who already have this love affair going on.
Really? It's that simple?
Yes, it is that simple.
Think about it....
Have you ever met someone, and you may not have even thought about falling in love with them, but the longer you were around them, you found yourself developing an affection for them? Same with Jesus.
You hang around where He likes to hang out. That would be with others who truly love to worship...
Others who truly love to study His word...
Others who truly love to see His Spirit move in their meetings....
You hang out with those folks.....and after a while, you'll find that you've started having these feelings for God. Why did you get these feelings? Because you made a choice to learn how to love.
That is what love truly is....a choice.
We choose to love.
Feelings follow choices in this case.
This relationship that we develop with Jesus is alive.
It changes and deepens as we grow in Him.
But it has to start somewhere and that is where most folks stay. They get saved and then they sit down. They don't pursue Jesus. They don't talk to Him. They don't listen for Him. They don't study His word. They simply receive His offer of salvation and then they quit. No wonder so many folks fall away from Jesus. It's kind of like the little boy who kept falling out of bed every night. His mother was questioning him about why this happened. His reply was, "I guess it's because I fall asleep right where I get into bed." We fall out of the spiritual bed because we fall asleep right where we entered and do nothing to grow our love for Jesus.
If you make it your desire to love God, then you will.
And there will be evidence of this love that will come back to you. You will have a greater awareness and gratitude for the things that God does to you and for you.
At Vineyard Recovery Church, we are learning how to love God.
We are learning how to love the people around us.
And last, but certainly not least, we are learning how to love ourselves.
If Scripture is right, then as we are learning this concept of loving God, then that is true way to experience God Himself.
In fact Jesus said that the entire Ten commandments and the prophets hang on this simple thought of loving God.
Now that is something to think about.
God on you...
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