A Question of Love

Day 24

For me it started with love. Did I love God?

I too have carried the heavy load of empty. The new outfit, cute hair cut, or lunch friends did nothing to lighten the load. My life had fallen short of  happily-ever-after. I knew life could be different but I did not know how.

My life was church and church was my life but church doesn’t give life, life different. Only Jesus can do that.

We can’t just wake up one day and say, “Today, I am gonna have a different life and Jesus, I am gonna let you give it to me.” No. It doesn’t happen like that.  How does different start? How do we move from here to there?

Love. Love God. Just love Him.

I am sad to say I did not love God that much. Enough to obey Him with joy. Enough to trust Him with abandon. Enough to truly let Him have control of my life. I wanted to, really I did. But I didn’t.

So I prayed. I prayed, “Lord, help me love you.” Every day. Every night. For months. “Lord, help me love you.” It was His great delight to answer this prayer. He wants His children to love Him. He told us so, “Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.” Deuteronomy 6:5

I prayed.  He answered.

Love precedes different.

When we love Him that much we obey with joy, trust with abandon, and willingly surrender control.

Different starts with love.

4 Comments

  1. Wendy i appreciate your openingness and honesty. I too am guilty of not loving God as i should. I really want to and have been praying. Im feeling God answering that prayer more each day as I spend more undivided time with Him..and obey what he tells me to do.
    Blessings

  2. Satan has deceived the whole world until the woman of Rev 12 delivers the true word of God Rev 12:5. She is not a church, she is not Israel, and she is not Mary. She is the prophet like unto Moses and Elijah Matt 17:3, Acts 3:21-23, Luke 1:17 delivering the true word John 1:1 from the wilderness Rev 12:6 to prepare a people for the Lord’s return. God our Father will not put any child of his into a hell fire no matter what their sins. It never entered the heart or mind of God to ever do such a thing Jer7:31, Jer 19:5. Turn your heart to the children of God. A gift is now delivered and proven to the whole world as a witness Matt 24:14. http://thegoodtale.wordpress.com. A righteous judge gathers ALL evidence before making a judgment. If you are called to know the true word- Prove all things. God chose a woman.

  3. My husband and I are committed to doing the Love Dare from the movie “Fireproof.” We are in the beginning, on day 6 today. Today’s dare is “Choose today to react to tough circumstances in your marriage in loving ways instead of with irritation. Begin by making a list of areas where you need to add margin to your schedule. Then list any wrong motivations that you need to release from your life.”
    After I read your post today, the end where you mention our schedules, the second half of the dare eckoed. I made a list of things I need to make time for, including prayer and meditation. Then I made an equal list of things I waste time doing, such as struggling to sleep in for just ten more minutes when I could just get out of bed.
    I just wanted to share this. 😉

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