God’s love language?

God’s love language?

Sometimes in the myriad of all the hustle and bustle of life, we loss focus on what God really wants from us. It’s like trying to woo a lady, you buy lots of presents and expensive gifts thinking that it will win her heart but only to realise that it’s not her love language.

If we are indeed created in the image of God then, I would believe that God has a love language too. And throughout ages men have tried to expound the deep truth of God’s heart and come out with a formula to prove our love to God.

Some say that if we love God we need to study and learn and understand the mysteries of the bible, Some say that if we love God we need to serve with all our heart to prove our love to God, while other says that to love God is to see our life thoroughly transform and to be able to live a life of faith.

Maybe the simplest answer may just be right in front of us, I believe all the above is true, but these will be the by-product of our love not vice versa. I think the one thing that truly God desire, is to be able to have an intimate relationship with us. When he created Adam and eve, he wanted to share his joy, his happiness and have close relationship with them. It was a relationship that God wanted from his created being. That is why the bible say the most important commandment is to love your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength.

Isn’t it ironic that sometimes, in our pursuit to show our love we assume we had to do a lot more. A classic example was the story of Mary and Martha. One devoted her love to serving; while another devoted her life to sitting at the feet of Jesus and God commended Mary for that. David also knew the key and that was a close relationship with God and God loved him because of that.

What it simply is is that all God want is for us first is to be able to have a consistent relationship with him through our worship, prayer and word. God wants us to seek him and to always desire to be at his feet. We can serve God without knowing him, We can change without loving him, We can read the bible without understanding him, But we certainly cannot love him without doing all the above.

Therefore if the extent of our love is strong, we do not need to be pushed to change, to read the bible, to serve, because our love will motivate us to do so. Never let your relationship with God take second place to your service to God. It’s the relationship he desires not the service.