How to Love God

The temptation comes to relax once we think we have found faith in Jesus. Some might revel in the promises of God and their assurance of a seat at the Father´s table. But we were not called to a one-time-declaration. We were called into a relationship—a walk with God. He is fairer than words can explain. When the wonder wears off, it is because we have lost sight of Him. We should rather press ourselves and train ourselves to seek Him all day. Relationships die when the need to work on them ceases. We cannot afford to let that happen to us. Pray that we may press closer still. Ask that we see more of God´s wonder and experience His presence more and more every day!

Dear Lord, strengthen our desire to devote ourselves to You. Let us not rest until we reach a closer walk with You. Give us no comfort in a life removed from Your presence. Rather, let our joys and sense of accomplishment be found only in being with You. Let us hunger and thirst for more each day. Amen

1 Corinthians 8:3 ESV / But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.

Philippians 1:9 ESV / And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment,

Ephesians 3:17-19 ESV / So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Romans 5:5 ESV / And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

John 15:12-14 ESV / “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.