Love-slaves

Jesus is passionately eager to “make love” with me – with everyone individually – and quench His desire for intimacy. God is love. He is the source and origin of all love found anywhere outside of Him. He designed us for this kind of relationship with Him and gave us marriage as a practice relationship to prepare us to better understand what He wants us to experience with Him.

I want, by my response to His luring advances toward me (Hosea 2:14), to unleash the passions of God and bring satisfaction to His heart. Doing so will also bring me deep joy and satisfaction. But my focus must be on satisfying His heart and His desires, not mine (Luke 17:8). The more purely I focus on making God's eyes light up with joy with no thought for satisfying myself, the more fulfilled and satisfied I will be.

This is the secret that Paul and all the early disciples discovered. They became “love-slaves” to God, consumed with eager desire to satisfy the deep hunger of God's heart at any cost to themselves. They became caught up in God's passion, consumed by His love and in the process became foreigners and strangers to this world.

O God, make Your heart my consuming obsession! Show me your face!