That statement just makes me smile. Humans are created with a love language. There is a way that we best except love and a way we best give it. So the 5 love languages are: quality time, gifts, words of affirmation, acts of service, touch. Do you know what your love language is? How do you best give love to someone else? How do you best receive it?
Within the past couple of weeks I have realized that God knows our love languages. He tells us He loves us through them. Sometimes it is other people that God use to tell us that He loves us but if we listen HE uses his own voice to express the pure joy He finds in us.
I LOVE getting flowers!!! I remember one Valentine’s Day my dad sent flowers to all the girls, my mom and two sisters and I, in his house hold. I was so excited. So during this past week God remember the pure joy that I get from getting flowers. This past week I was having a really rotten week. There were many things that I could not physical control that were very hard and on top of that I was sick. Almost every day that week I would find the most beautiful flowers right outside my back door. They would be laying on the ground to obvious for me not to notice. I would always find them when I would return from a really hard day and there they were waiting for me. The collections of flowers were my favorites. One day I found roses, another day this brilliant red flower. The list goes on and on of the unique and beautiful creations I would find outside my door. Each day I got something different each day something stunning. The cool thing was that they were not just flowers that had fallen of the tree in the area. NO, they were flowers I had never even seen in the general area. Every time that would happen. I would say to my roommate GOD is sending me flowers.
My love languages, that I best receive love in, are: physical touch and quality time. In my little mind a God who is never seen and not someone we can physically touch should have a problem expressing love to me in my love languages but it is so amazing because HE always find a way to express it to me. At times I will be doing every day things like riding on the bus, or eating dinner and I can feel my father in heaven stoke my hair. The first couple of times that this happened I thought it was someone behind me so I would turn around to see who it was but no one would be there. Abba has a very gentle, very soft touch; I am starting to realize when it is HIM.
There is one way that He tells me He loves me that sends shivers up and down my spine. That is when He uses His voice, audibly. Have you ever heard that? I am sitting there again just doing every day activities and He comes and says, “I am pleased with you”; “I hear you when you speak to Me.”; “KIMELA, I love you.” It makes my soul want to sing. My body just wants to jump up and dance.
The KING of the universe loves me. He is not some heavenly being that made me and forgot me. He takes pleasure in me and finds way to express His love to me!
Song of Solomon 2:4
“He has taken me to the banquet hall,and his banner over me is love.”
Zephaniah 3:17 “The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing."
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Saturday, December 26, 2009
obsessed with God
I want to be obsessed with You, Lord. I see the terms such as: infatuated, lovesick, smitten, preoccupied to be not such good terms when talking about a human to human relationship. I have those friends that when they meet a boy become infatuated with him. I think that everyone can become this way; different people show it in different degrees. They will not talk about anything but him. They think about him all the time. They are always with him.
What would happen if everyone that said they were a believer did that with God? They were obsessed with God. What would the all sinful world look like? Even with sin in it, it would be beautiful.
As I write this I am reminded of the story of Job.
Job 1:1-5
Prologue
“In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. He had seven sons and three daughters, and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East. His sons used to take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would send and have them purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, "Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." This was Job's regular custom.
At the first part of this book this man is known as blameless and upright. I am reminded that this story is told before the sacrifice of Jesus; so job is blameless and upright on his own merit. He sacrifices everyday and even sacrifices for his children just in case, after they sacrificed for themselves. His desire is to honor God in all that he does. He is obsessed with pleasing the Lord.
In the end of the book after trials and tribulations come he has still not given up on pleasing the Lord. Even after he is corrected toward the end of the book his goal in life is to still please the Lord with all that he is. Just listen to the intent and the cry of his heart right after the Lord reminds him that the Lord is God and is in control.
JOB 42:1-6
Then Job replied to the LORD:"I know that you can do all things;
no plan of yours can be thwarted. You asked, 'Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?' Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know. “You said, 'Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me.' My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you. Therefore I despise myself
and repent in dust and ashes."
I want to be in love with God to that degree. I want him to be all I talk about. I want His option to be the only one that matters. I want to fall hard for him every day. I want to run after God. I want to be obsessed with God.
One Pure and Holy Passion
Watermark (The Road to One Day Live)
Give me one pure and holy passion
Give me one magnificent obsession
Give me one glorious ambition for me life
To know and follow hard after you.
(repeat)
(Chorus)
To know and follow hard after you
To grow as your disciple in the truth
This world empty, pail, and poor
Compared to knowing you my Lord
Lead me on and I will run after you
Lead me on and I will run after you
What would happen if everyone that said they were a believer did that with God? They were obsessed with God. What would the all sinful world look like? Even with sin in it, it would be beautiful.
As I write this I am reminded of the story of Job.
Job 1:1-5
Prologue
“In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. He had seven sons and three daughters, and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East. His sons used to take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would send and have them purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, "Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." This was Job's regular custom.
At the first part of this book this man is known as blameless and upright. I am reminded that this story is told before the sacrifice of Jesus; so job is blameless and upright on his own merit. He sacrifices everyday and even sacrifices for his children just in case, after they sacrificed for themselves. His desire is to honor God in all that he does. He is obsessed with pleasing the Lord.
In the end of the book after trials and tribulations come he has still not given up on pleasing the Lord. Even after he is corrected toward the end of the book his goal in life is to still please the Lord with all that he is. Just listen to the intent and the cry of his heart right after the Lord reminds him that the Lord is God and is in control.
JOB 42:1-6
Then Job replied to the LORD:"I know that you can do all things;
no plan of yours can be thwarted. You asked, 'Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?' Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know. “You said, 'Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me.' My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you. Therefore I despise myself
and repent in dust and ashes."
I want to be in love with God to that degree. I want him to be all I talk about. I want His option to be the only one that matters. I want to fall hard for him every day. I want to run after God. I want to be obsessed with God.
One Pure and Holy Passion
Watermark (The Road to One Day Live)
Give me one pure and holy passion
Give me one magnificent obsession
Give me one glorious ambition for me life
To know and follow hard after you.
(repeat)
(Chorus)
To know and follow hard after you
To grow as your disciple in the truth
This world empty, pail, and poor
Compared to knowing you my Lord
Lead me on and I will run after you
Lead me on and I will run after you
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