Experiencing GodSample

The Experience of His Love

There is nothing in this world like experiencing the unconditional love of God. His love extends farther than the width of the skies. His love goes deeper than the deepest sea. His love is more powerful than a raging fire and closer than the heartbeat within your chest. Experiencing his love is like becoming new again and again. With each taste of his affection, the wounds of the past become healed and restored so that one no longer regrets pain but rejoices in the opportunity it gives to experience the love of a good and near heavenly Father once again.

When we seek to know God, we gain experiences with his love because it’s who he is. 1 John 4:8 says, “Anyone who does not love does not know God because God is love.” To know love is to know God because every bit of true love comes from him.

1 John 4:16 says,“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.”

It’s time for you and me to “believe" God's love for us. It’s time that we cease questioning whether we are loved and instead seek the face of our heavenly Father so that we might know beyond a shadow of a doubt that he loves us.

Almost all of my energy goes toward being loved. I look for love everywhere. I look for it from my wife, friends, coworkers, acquaintances, and total strangers. I constantly concern myself with whether I am, moment by moment, loved or not. But Jesus came so that we might no longer ask ourselves that question.“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). God already loved us so much that he died for us (Romans 5:8). There’s nothing we have to do to earn his love. If we need a fresh reminder of it, all we have to do is simply seek his face, and love will come as the result.

We have unlimited access by God's grace to God's love. Unconditional, limitless love awaits us at every turn if our hearts will simply seek Him. Scripture says in Psalm 27:8, “You have said, ‘Seek my face.’ My heart says to you, ‘Your face, Lord, do I seek.'”

May we be children who constantly seek the face of our loving heavenly Father. May we be a bride wholly wrapped up in our Bridegroom's love. And may we experience as the result of simply seeking God the powerful affections of a God who laid down his own life for the sake of his creation.

Prayer

1. Meditate on the love of your heavenly Father. Allow Scripture to stir up your desire to seek God and, as a result, experience an encounter with his love.

“Anyone who does not love does not know God because God is love.” 1 John 4:8

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16

“So we have come to know and believe God's love for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him." 1 John 4:16

2. Where are you seeking love? To whom or what are you turning for love other than God?

3. Take time to seek the face of your heavenly Father and encounter his love. Open your heart to him and simply desire a relationship with him. He will take care of the rest.

“And hope does not put us to shame because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” Romans 5:5

“You have said, ‘Seek my face.’ My heart says to you, ‘Your face, Lord, do I seek.'” Psalm 27:8