Being in love....with God!

A new revelation hit me recently and thinking about it, it's pretty simplistic but to me it's made me view my relationship with God differently.

Thinking recently about being single and being in love, they're often put as two separate things, they exist on their own or if you're single and in love (a love that's not returned), it's generally a hopeless case (I know that's not 100% right)!

Being in love is generally best left to the people that have someone to love and to have that someone love them back. Being in love is an amazing thing, it hurts at times but it makes people happy, so why can't a singleton have that? I want it! And I have it!

Being in love means you get shivers and butterflies thinking about them, seeing them, hearing them, you see a place and it instantly reminds you of them, they're on your mind constantly and you never want to hurt them, if you hurt them you want to make it up to them, you're desperate to gain their trust and their love back. Isn't it like that with us and God?

I may not be in love with anyone but it doesn't mean I can't taste what love is like, and still enjoy being in love with an amazing God. It's not a romantic love, it's an indescribable love, but the conventions are all still there.

When God heals someone or I hear an amazing testimony or He speaks to me I get butterflies, I get shivers...I'm amazed (if you couldn't tell from the latest entries!) I love hearing from God and I'd love to see His face.

I go to places and I see His beauty there and I'm reminded of Him.

Although He's not on my mind 24/7 I'd love to make it that way and be that focused on Him.

When I sin, I feel awful because I've hurt Him, and I love Him so much, I'd hate to lose Him and although God says He will never leave me, I want to make it up to Him, I want to strive to at least TRY and be better, even though we both know I'll never be perfect and I will always fall short! To put it better and definitely more poetically...

"To love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways...to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul" Joshua 22:5

So I'm loving being in love! I may not be the most intellectual person, or the most theologically minded (I'll probably get told this blog isn't theologically sound!) but whether or not this makes sense one thing is for sure...

I love God He is the ultimate listener, the ultimate artist, the ultimate friend, father and saviour and it's good to know that He loves me infinitely more and that it is unrequited.What more could you want? It doesn't get much better than that!!