Honoring God by Letting Him Love You
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One way we honor God is by spending time with Him and letting Him love us.
Listen, daughter, and pay careful attention:
Forget your people and your father’s house.
Let the king be enthralled by your beauty;
honor him, for he is your lord. (Ps. 45:10–11 NIV)
Do you know how to relax in His presence?
Do you know what His love feels like?
“Let the king be enthralled by your beauty.”
Most of us have a head knowledge of God’s love, but we don’t really know it deep in our heart—we don’t even realize that’s an option! We think we already know all there is. “Yes, Jesus loves me. I know what the Bible says.”
But God’s love is more—so much more—than what we think we understand about it. Just as He is beyond human understanding, His love is beyond human understanding. It can be experienced, but it cannot be fully contained within the limits of the human mind.
“Honor him, for he is your lord.”
This month at Becoming the One, we’re talking about a culture of honor. God’s love plays a huge role in honor. In fact, it is impossible to genuinely honor someone if God’s love is not involved.
To honor our spouse, we need to experience God’s love. Not just in our head, but deep within the pillars of our heart too. When we know we are loved, it becomes easier to love the person God designed to be our spouse.
To honor our parents and in-laws, we need to know personally and operate in the love of God.
To honor friends and co-workers, we need to be filled up with His love, which allows us to grant mercy and forgive.
The human spirit cries out for the precious love of God. We need His love to such a degree that we cannot be fully ourselves without it. Experiencing the unconditional love of our heavenly Father allows us to be who He created us to be—which is another vital part of honor. We honor God by becoming the one and embracing with joy who He made us to be.
Get to know God’s love!
You, beloved child of God, get to do more than just “know about” His love for you. You get to experience it in every part of your being.
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. (1 John 4:16)
You honor the Lord when you relax in His presence and allow Him to draw close to you and love you. Get to know His tender, amazing, quiet, gentle, strong, overwhelming love in your heart and your mind. Learn how to recognize it and feel it in the deepest places inside you.
Your heavenly Father is ready to show you what His love feels like. Set aside some time this week, and invite His love to surround you.
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Your heavenly Father loves you more than you realize! For more about His amazing, unending love, check out Becoming the One by Salomé Roat. Click here to learn more. The book is also available in Spanish.