Friday, March 11, 2016

Love God Passionately

Deut 6:5 (NKJV)
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

God wants us to love Him passionately as He also loves us passionately.
Passion according to learnersdictionary.com means a strong feeling of enthusiasm or excitement for something or about doing something. Some of us are passionate about football, music, telemundos, etc.

When we are passionate about something, thoughts about the object of our passion fills our minds all the time. We create time and spend our energy on what we love passionately. When we are passionate about our Heavenly Father, He is also drawn to us and begins to reveal Himself to us in ways we never know. There’s no way we can spend time with God and not be changed. He is Wisdom, Knowledge, Power and the Source of all virtues.

James 4:8a (NKJV)
8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.

When Isaiah saw the Lord, he was changed he saw an area of his life that he didn’t know needed transformation prior to having that encounter with God.

Isaiah 6:1-7 (NKJV)
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. 2 Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one cried to another and said:
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
The whole earth is full of His glory!”
4 And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.
5 So I said:
“Woe is me, for I am undone!
Because I am a man of unclean lips,
And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips;
For my eyes have seen the King,
The Lord of hosts.”
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the altar. 7 And he touched my mouth with it, and said:
“Behold, this has touched your lips;
Your iniquity is taken away,
And your sin purged.”

Prayer
Dear Lord, please help me love you passionately, become the centre of my affections. In Jesus Name. Amen.