I often hear women say they love God but there is just something than hinders them from feeling God's love for them. I think for some, if not most people, loving God or being loved by God are more intellectual exercises than an emotional experiences.
So how can we nurture a heart for God?
It would seem best to begin by considering His heart for us.
1 John 4:9-10 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 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.
Romans 5:5-6 ...because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
Romans 5:8 ...but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
1 John 4:19 We love because he first loved us.
When we stop to consider that there is nothing in us that is naturally attracted to God, we are not inclined toward His glory, we realize we have nothing to boast about.
Isaiah 53:2b-3, 6 ...he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not...All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned-every one-to his own way...
Apart from God Himself putting the desire in our hearts to seek Him, we will not.
John 6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
Are you beginning to appreciate the radical love God has for you? The depth of the love He has lavished on you? How can we ignore such amazing, unwarranted, undeserved love?
Stay tuned...
Diane
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