God loves you. You probably already accept the truth of this. But this should never be a mere abstract fact. Love is experiential in nature. God wants you to feel loved. This is something that so many of us miss too much of the time. We miss it because we allow other things to eclipse this reality. We direct our affections elsewhere. We turn away and his love just hits us, as it were, in the back of the head. To reconnect with God’s love, we must turn around; and turning around takes time. Turning around involves us exercising our affections for him, that is, seeking God. The more we seek God the more we turn our affections towards him; we bring our hearts into alignment with his. The greatest commandment in Scripture is the commandment “to love the Lord our God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength”. We are being called in other words, to direct ourselves toward God; to direct our deepest affections towards him. This is something that the psalms of praise are directing us to do again and again: “Praise the Lord”, “Give thanks to the Lord”, “Love the Lord”, “Seek the Lord,” “Sing to the Lord”, “Be still and know that he is God.” When you direct your affections towards God it is like bringing yourself eye to eye with him; you come into alignment with his love for you. Then you will know joy. You will know a joy that will still your soul, and it will lighten everything up around you.
Praise God today for all the good things he has done for you.
Read Psalm 92.
