HOW TO LOVE GOD
Loving God is not natural. In other words, love for God is not a natural affection in the unregenerate man. Someone may say they love God, but words are words.
When someone says they love God, on what exactly do they base that love?
- Is it for the good He does?
- Is it for the blessings that He gives?
Matthew tells us, “God causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.” Anyone who says He loves God, but when God sends His rain responds as Job’s wife responded in Job 2:9, is not a lover of God. They are a lover of earthly things.
We Love God By Trusting in Him
Romans 8:28 gives a glimpse into the heart of those who love God. Those who love God KNOW.
They are confident that God is working everything for their good from His foreknowing to glorification.
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.
Romans 8:28-30.
What is the good talked about in Romans 8:28? God is the good.
- We love God above all things,
- We trust God with all things.
When there is love and trust in God we will have a peace that passes all understanding. Philippians 4:7.
God Builds Our Trust
There is a learning curve that every believer encounters. Can you relate to Paul when he said, “I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need?” Philippians 4:12
We learn more about God and rest more in God as He sanctifies and grows us into the image of His son, Jesus Christ, as He supplies a measure of faith.
Paul experienced the protection and love of God through all of his trials and sufferings. He knew his purpose was conformity to the image of Christ.
He kept his eyes set above and not on earthly things.
Paul did not consider the sufferings of this age_worthy of comparing with the glory that is to be revealed.
I do not believe he was only thinking about no more tears, no longer any death, no longer mourning, or crying or pain, Revelation 21:4, but Christ Who will wipe them all away.
Those Who Are Called
There is a high calling and God-given purpose for the called-out ones. Conformity to the image of Christ is like clay in the potters hands.
“This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: ‘Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.’ So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him” – Jeremiah 18:2-4.
Do you love God?
What difference would it make in our trials and sufferings if we desired God above all things?
Would we respond different?
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