This past winter I was able to go to a concert that featured Moriah Peters, The Rend Collective Experiment, and Tenth Avenue North. The singer of Tenth Avenue North, Mike Donehey, is really good at speaking and explaining things he has struggled with in his life and how he was able to get past those troubles.
Mike mentioned something that I really related to. He mentioned how often times he felt like he didn't love God enough. He just wanted to just tell his heart to love God more, but that's not how it works. Mike said something along the lines of:
If I'm not loving God enough its because we don't know God's love for us enough.
I have felt like I didn't love God enough many times. Being in a relationship with God revolves around loving God, but why would you love God? I feel like we don't just love to love, but often we love with a reason behind that love. If we have no reason to love God we won't love Him. So what is our reason behind loving God?
We have a reason to love God and not just one, but many reasons to love God. The main overarching reason is that He first loved us. If your unsure of how much God loves us look at what Jesus did on the cross and look at what He does for us each day. However, God's love is uncomprehendable so we will never really understand just how much He loves us until we meat Him in heaven.
The point is simple, if you want to love God more gain more of an understanding of His great love for you. 1 John 4:19 profoundly expresses all that this post is about.
"We love because he first loved us."
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