"The
Lord your God will cleanse your heart.... so that you will love Him with all
your heart and soul." Deuteronomy 30:6
God greatly
desires our love. It is the nature of all love to want to be acceptable
and to be accepted. God longs to have the love of our whole heart.
How can we
love God with all our heart and soul? In the same way that we receive
salvation – through faith alone. Paul says, 'I live my life in this
earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for
me" (Galatians 2:20). When we take time to wait upon God and
remember how God sought to win our love through the gift of His Son, we shall
realize that God has a strong longing for our love.
Our hearts
are blind. It is easy to forget that God longs for the love of His child.
Once we believe it, we will feel constrained to wait before God and ask
Him to let His light shine into our hearts. As the sun gives us its
light, God is a thousand times more willing to give us the light of His love.
As we wait
silently before God, we become strong in the assurance of faith. God, who
longs for our love, is almighty and will fill us with His love by the Holy
Spirit.
Take time
each day to love God and believe Him with firmer faith. God will work
within us, granting the desire to love Him with our whole heart. He will
enable us to prove our love by keeping His commandments.
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