Today I was driving down the road, and God said to me, “Do you know how Valentines Day is coming up?”
I said, “Yes Father, I know.”
He said, “Do you know how powerful and strong and passionate the relationship between a man and a woman can be?”
I said, “Yes!!!”
He said, “That’s the kind of relationship I want with my people!”
I had some love songs on in the car, including “The Power of Love”… one of my favorites! It was as if He said to me, “I want you to listen to those songs and sing them… not because of your love for another person, but because of your love for me, and my love for you.”
I did… and tears starting coming down my face!
Then Un-chained Melody came on… another one of my favorites… and I wept almost the whole way home as I thought of my Father’s great love for me!!
During my time in the Bible last night, the Lord also reminded me of a Bible verse that shows us clearly that our relationship with God is supposed to be a deep and passionate love relationship! Take a look at Ephesians 5:25-32…
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.”
You know how passionate a deep love relationship between a man and a woman can be? They would do ANYTHING for each other… they would even DIE for each other… their love is so strong that NOTHING can keep them apart! That kind of a love relationship doesn’t begin to describe how deep and powerful and passionate our love relationship with God is supposed to be!
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