Today arises the generation of “lovers of God”. It all begins and ends with love. Everything that we do should be motivated by love. King David’s physical body and soul were thirsty for experiential, emotive love. Ps. 84:2 reads…My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God….

God loves you and he thinks about you. Jer. 29:11 “My thoughts toward you are good and not evil, to give to you an expected end”. You are loved and it is okay for you to begin to feel loved. Your father loved you so much that he sent his Son Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ loved you so much that he obeyed his Father, even to the point of death. Yes, you are loved!

We should not be ruled by our feelings, but neither should we ignore them. This generation of lovers feel loved by their Father. One of the keys to resisting feelings of temptation to sin and rejection is to become overwhelmed by God’s delight. He delights in us and as we cultivate a lifestyle in the glory of his Love, we will enjoy the pleasure of being loved, feeling loved, and feeling what God feels for us.  We will begin to experience rich, emotional, living love that He has covered us with.

Happiness is limitless in God. There are depths to His love that many of us have not discovered. “Serving God in a non-affectionate manner is not a sign of spiritual endurance, faithfulness, or nobility. Serving God apart from a sense of pleasure is antichrist in nature”, says John Crowder, Destiny Image Publishers, Inc.

We’ve spent most of our Christian lives establishing that we have accepted Jesus as Lord. We have established over and over that we love God.  Think about the words to this familiar Christian Song.  ”Oh How I Love Jesus, Oh How I Love Jesus, Oh How I Love Jesus, Because he first loved me.”  Do we really pay attention to the end of this chorus?  The words are “Because He First Loved Me!”.  Let the words sink in.  We are loved, and God loved us first.

Now is the time to accept and whole heartedly enjoy the sheer bliss of being loved by God. The bliss of being loved by Jesus. “He loved me first…He loved me first…He loved me first…”  Meditate on that for a while. Your life will be totally transformed.