I am in love. There is a love that has captured my heart like nothing else can. A love that has pursued me, rescued me, satisfied me… A love so rich, so pure, so strong, so lasting… A love that has met the deepest longings of my heart... and I could go on forever. It is the love for which I was made.
Jesus - The Love of my life.
When I pause and think of Him, love overwhelms me.
Jesus. The One who:
- made me
- came to earth for me
- lived a perfect life
- died a cruel death on the cross and descended into hell in my place
- rose back to life – victorious over sin and death
- drew my heart to see my need for Him, trust Him as my Savior, and surrender to Him as my Lord
- continues to pursue my heart and transform me into His likeness
- is preparing a place for me in Heaven and is coming to take me home
- walks with me every moment and will never leave me
All so I could know Him, taste His goodness, be satisfied in Him, worship Him, declare His goodness to the world, and live with Him forever!
This is life. This is love. This is what my heart needs.
This is Jesus – The Love of my Life.
I am in love and I could talk for hours… but, you don’t need my words, you need to hear Him tell you from His Word – the Bible – about His love for YOU!
Oh, look at His love for us – and inhale love and exhale joy: "...I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you." ~ Jeremiah 31:3 "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." ~ Zephaniah 3:17 "For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you." ~ Psalm 86:5 "But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness." ~ Psalm 86:15 "'I have loved you,” says the Lord." ~ Malachi 1:2 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." ~ John 3:16 "In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." ~ 1 John 4:10 "Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends." ~ John 15:13 "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." ~ Gal. 2:20
…And the list could go on and on!
Soak in His love, friend – and join my heart in saying, “I love You, too, Lord!”
I love the reality that we never say “I love you” to Jesus without Him first having loved us! “We love because he first loved us.” (1 John 4:19)
And, His love will never fail those who have trusted in Him as Lord and Savior! (Romans 8:35-39) Nothing – even death can separate us from Him and His love. No matter what happens or has happened, what we do or don’t do, what we feel, what others think or say, or even our lack of love. Nothing. No – Jesus said it, and that settles it.
Listen closely to Romans 8:35-39:
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Oh, it makes me want to love Him and worship! A verse the Lord blessed me through and I memorized recently is “…I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning…” Psalm 59:16 {I just had to pause and sing!} When we’ve known love like this, we just can’t be quiet.
The more we know this precious Savior who we were created to be satisfied in, the more we will proclaim “…your steadfast love is better than life…”! (Psalm 63:3)
I remember the years of longing and feeling that nothing on this earth could satisfy… and the overwhelming fulfillment that washed over me when Jesus opened my eyes to see that HE ALONE is the One who “satisfies the longing soul”. (Psalm 107:9)
Friend, He is seeking your heart – and He is seeking mine. He wants us to know Him for the first time in salvation (seeing our sinfulness, trusting in Jesus and His work on the Cross to save us, surrendering our lives to follow Him, and receiving His forgiveness, life within us, and grace to walk with Him), and then bring us ever deeper in a relationship with Him for as long as we live! This is what we were created for and the only place we will be satisfied.
Jesus. Jesus alone.
Let’s receive His grace to refuse to settle for things less than Jesus – things that will never truly satisfy the deepest longings and aches of our souls. Not even good things out of place – holding the place that is rightfully Christ’s. What can some of those be? Friends, clothes, activities, music, books, food, success… you can add what it is in your life.
A big one can be the desire for human love. The desire for human love – and the desire for marriage and that one person to especially love – is natural. If it is the will of God for me to marry and grow in loving, being sanctified by, and serving Jesus together with His man for me, I will treasure it as a beautiful gift from His hand that He has seen best for His glory and my good. But, no mere person can ever satisfy the deepest needs of our heart – as expecting them to only sets us up for disappointment.
Nothing and no one can ever satisfy the deepest needs of our heart. Only Jesus can. As we are satisfied in Him, the other things in life are optional, added blessings that He gives as gifts to help us love the Giver – Jesus - more! These gifts can be given or taken and we still have all we need in Jesus.
And, oh! The times that I become distracted, look to other things for love, and don’t love Him as I should, HE STILL LOVES ME AND PURSUES MY HEART! In His deep love, He will not let me stay in a state that brings less joy to me and less glory to Him. It is the same for you. This is the truest love.
He is in His very nature and Name, Love. “God is love.” (1 John 14:16)
Just like any human relationship, the most important relationship with Jesus, takes cultivating. The amazing thing is that He always keeps His side of the relationship! There are special things He has given us that by the power of the Holy Spirit help us know, love, and grow in our walk with Him!
Here are some things that have been helping me fall more in love with Jesus lately:
~ Time in His Word and conversational prayer
~ Worshipping Him for Who He is – and keeping a list of His qualities (i.e. loving, my Redeemer, patient, etc.)
~ Keeping Him first priority in my thoughts, heart, and time – and obeying His leading
~ Journaling and remembering His faithfulness to me over the years {Happy sigh}
~ Being with others who love Him
~ Seeing and soaking in His love in the little things
(You can find some more ideas by clicking HERE.)
The most important thing is receiving God’s grace, and allowing Him to do a deep work, to cause you to want and seek Him above all else. He always meets you here.
And when He meets you, you will be satisfied.
I want to live with a heart satisfied in Jesus, a life lived by His life within me, and a passion that overflows and sparkles out of my eyes when I talk about Him. I want a journey of love with Jesus that only deepens every day of my life. Don’t you?
Remember He is always pursuing your heart – you must only receive His grace and respond.
As you and I do, I know we will say,
“Jesus is the Love of my life.”
~~~~~~~~~~~
For more encouragement in this love relationship with Jesus:
Videos:
~ A Relationship of Love with Jesus - https://vimeo.com/19587008
~ Jesus is Your Best Friend - https://vimeo.com/59284885
Article: ~ Ways to Grow in Loving Jesus –http://beautifultogod.blogspot.com/2014/11/practical-ways-to-grow-in-loving-lord.html
The more we know this precious Savior who we were created to be satisfied in, the more we will proclaim “…your steadfast love is better than life…”! (Psalm 63:3)
I remember the years of longing and feeling that nothing on this earth could satisfy… and the overwhelming fulfillment that washed over me when Jesus opened my eyes to see that HE ALONE is the One who “satisfies the longing soul”. (Psalm 107:9)
Friend, He is seeking your heart – and He is seeking mine. He wants us to know Him for the first time in salvation (seeing our sinfulness, trusting in Jesus and His work on the Cross to save us, surrendering our lives to follow Him, and receiving His forgiveness, life within us, and grace to walk with Him), and then bring us ever deeper in a relationship with Him for as long as we live! This is what we were created for and the only place we will be satisfied.
Jesus. Jesus alone.
Let’s receive His grace to refuse to settle for things less than Jesus – things that will never truly satisfy the deepest longings and aches of our souls. Not even good things out of place – holding the place that is rightfully Christ’s. What can some of those be? Friends, clothes, activities, music, books, food, success… you can add what it is in your life.
A big one can be the desire for human love. The desire for human love – and the desire for marriage and that one person to especially love – is natural. If it is the will of God for me to marry and grow in loving, being sanctified by, and serving Jesus together with His man for me, I will treasure it as a beautiful gift from His hand that He has seen best for His glory and my good. But, no mere person can ever satisfy the deepest needs of our heart – as expecting them to only sets us up for disappointment.
Nothing and no one can ever satisfy the deepest needs of our heart. Only Jesus can. As we are satisfied in Him, the other things in life are optional, added blessings that He gives as gifts to help us love the Giver – Jesus - more! These gifts can be given or taken and we still have all we need in Jesus.
And, oh! The times that I become distracted, look to other things for love, and don’t love Him as I should, HE STILL LOVES ME AND PURSUES MY HEART! In His deep love, He will not let me stay in a state that brings less joy to me and less glory to Him. It is the same for you. This is the truest love.
He is in His very nature and Name, Love. “God is love.” (1 John 14:16)
Just like any human relationship, the most important relationship with Jesus, takes cultivating. The amazing thing is that He always keeps His side of the relationship! There are special things He has given us that by the power of the Holy Spirit help us know, love, and grow in our walk with Him!
Here are some things that have been helping me fall more in love with Jesus lately:
~ Time in His Word and conversational prayer
~ Worshipping Him for Who He is – and keeping a list of His qualities (i.e. loving, my Redeemer, patient, etc.)
~ Keeping Him first priority in my thoughts, heart, and time – and obeying His leading
~ Journaling and remembering His faithfulness to me over the years {Happy sigh}
~ Being with others who love Him
~ Seeing and soaking in His love in the little things
(You can find some more ideas by clicking HERE.)
The most important thing is receiving God’s grace, and allowing Him to do a deep work, to cause you to want and seek Him above all else. He always meets you here.
And when He meets you, you will be satisfied.
I want to live with a heart satisfied in Jesus, a life lived by His life within me, and a passion that overflows and sparkles out of my eyes when I talk about Him. I want a journey of love with Jesus that only deepens every day of my life. Don’t you?
Remember He is always pursuing your heart – you must only receive His grace and respond.
As you and I do, I know we will say,
“Jesus is the Love of my life.”
~~~~~~~~~~~
For more encouragement in this love relationship with Jesus:
Videos:
~ A Relationship of Love with Jesus - https://vimeo.com/19587008
~ Jesus is Your Best Friend - https://vimeo.com/59284885
Article: ~ Ways to Grow in Loving Jesus –http://beautifultogod.blogspot.com/2014/11/practical-ways-to-grow-in-loving-lord.html
