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God’s Love Language
It was a beautiful summer evening. Sunlight was cascading across the sky, turning clouds vibrant shades of orange and red. I was sitting on a curb enjoying the light show while watching Asher, my firstborn, attempt to ride a tricycle. His feet couldn’t reach the pedals, yet he wouldn’t stop trying. A great sense of joy and pride was welling up in me as I witnessed his resilience. It was a good night.
As I was experiencing this pride in my son, God suddenly dropped something into my spirit. I heard the words I am love. Now, I’ve been in church my whole life, and I’ve heard this idea of God being love a few times. So when God whispered those words into my spirit, it’s not like I was hearing anything I hadn’t heard before. But I threw aside my preconceived ideas and asked God to reveal something new to my heart.
As I quieted myself, I sensed God was showing me something about His love language.
I am love, and faith is My love language.
My first thought sent me to Hebrews 11:6—the bit about God being pleased with our faith. But I could tell that God was showing me something different, and I soon became overwhelmed and undone by the gravity of what He had whispered in my spirit.
God showed me that faith isn’t just how we show our love for Him—although God does find great pleasure in our faith because of what it does in us. Rather, the whole idea of faith being God’s love language is about how He shows His love to us.
God has faith in you because He sees you in Christ. He’s confident in the work of His Spirit. He’s confident He can finish the good work He started. His faithfulness is not contingent on your worthiness. Simply put, God’s full of faith because He knows what He’s capable of—He doesn’t struggle with false humility or doubt.
The question is, Will you accept His faith in you? Will you embrace the hope He’s placed on and in you? Will you embrace the identity that He already speaks over you? Or will deny that you are a Saint, running from who He has created you to be and rejecting the experience of His transforming love?
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The Bible uses the word Christian to describe followers of Jesus a total of three times. But there’s another identifier that fills the pages of the New Testament—a word we’ve mistakenly reserved for the halo-wearing elite, losing something profound in the process. Saints. Wrapped in this ancient word is an invitation to discover who God created you to be and awaken to the life you were meant to know.
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