Written by David Bowden and Mart Green, contemporary authors and businessmen. Today’s devotion is an excerpt from their book “Learning to Be Loved.”
The most important thing you will ever do is learn to be loved by God. The Bible says, “God so loved the world,” and “God is love.” We’ve heard these statements before. I know God loves me, at least in my head. The problem is that, most days, I struggle to believe it. Do you?… We know God is love. The problem is we don’t know how to receive that love. We have convictions, beliefs, worship songs, and doctrinal statements that all agree with the truth that God loves us deeply. But we don’t know how to be loved that deeply. We know God has said you are Mine. The problem is we don’t know how to be His. We have an intimacy problem with God. I don’t mean intimacy in a romantic or physical way. I mean that we have a problem of being known by God and knowing God. We cover up, hide, pretend, and fake it. We struggle to let God into the secret, broken, sensitive places in our lives. And we block ourselves off from the deep, unbelievable, and category-breaking ways God loves us. This is our intimacy problem. We need to develop intimacy with God. We need to learn to let ourselves be known by God and explore the God who wants to be known. This is a journey. There’s so much hurt to heal from. There are so many lies to stop believing. There’s so much truth that needs to seep into the hard parts of our hearts. There is so much of God’s love we need to discover. But all of us have the desperate need to learn to be loved by God.
How precious is your steadfast love, O God! The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings. [Psalm 36:7]
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