As
married couples, we are smart to learn one another's Love Language ( https://www.5lovelanguages.com/profile/
). If we show an ounce of interest and appreciation and cherishing to our mate
every day, our effort pays big dividends throughout our marriage.
Kindness
and compassion serve as the root of our love for one another. Interest,
understanding, gratitude, and unconditional acceptance of who each of us is and
what we need all help to prove that love to each other.
Yet,
when circumstances break us, people disappoint us, and all of our best laid
plans fall apart, Jesus is the only One who knows exactly what we need. He
offers us His rest (Matthew 11:28; Hebrews 4:1-16), His love (John 3:16-17) and
His provision (Philippians 4:19) every day of our life.
Diamonds,
furs, chocolates and cruises are not a girl's best friend. Jesus is. He is our whole
life (Colossians 3:3-4); He is all we need (Psalm 16:5-11). We live, move and
have our best life in Him (Acts 17:28).
If
we take the time to sit in His presence and focus our love and praise on Him,
He pours out His love over us like a waterfall, filling us with His peace and
joy, and directing us on the straight and narrow path of life to keep us safe
and to provide for us.
His
love started before we were ever born, intricately forming us in our mother's
womb, and writing out all of our days in His book before we even lived one of
them (Psalm 139:14-16). He has a perfect plan for our life (Ephesians 2:10).
God
made us, and we belong to Him. We are His people and the sheep of His pasture
(Psalm 23:1-2, 100:3). All we need to do is to walk in the path He chose for us
in order to minimize our trauma and increase our blessings in this life and the
next.
We
are not His puppet, and He is not our crutch. We have the privilege of enjoying
an intimate relationship with the Creator of the universe. In our union with
Him, we transition from viewing Him only as Almighty God to also enjoying Him
as our Daddy God (Romans 8:15).
Prayer:
Father
God, thank You for relating to us as the lover of our soul (Psalm 23:3). Our
eternal destiny is decided by our earthly choices (John 3:18), and we choose to
accept Your free gift of salvation through Jesus' sacrifice on Calvary's cross
(Romans 6:23). You fulfill our need to feel loved, cherished, validated,
worthwhile, and to belong. You place us in a family of Believers who share our
values and world view.
You
will never, ever leave or forsake us (Hebrews 13:5). Even when You are silent,
we enjoy that companionable silence with You. You love us even while we are
still sinners, and You perfect us by Your Spirit's sanctifying work in us (Romans
5:8). We come to You for the love we need, and we thank You for bringing people
into our life who validate, appreciate and love us unconditionally.
Thought
for the Day:
All
we need is love from Jesus, who is our Supreme Being, and who chose to come to
earth, to suffer as we do in this sin-cursed world, to pay the ultimate price
for our sin-debt, and to prepare an eternal Home for us with Him forever. -
John 14:2-3
