Love is the lifeblood of the human spirit. We crave it, we need it, if we don’t have love, or, if we lose someone we love, we suffer more deeply than in any other circumstance. If you deprive a child of love it will end up being severely psychologically incapacitated. A child won’t develop without love. Love validates people for who they truly are. But there is a primary level of validation that we need that people cannot give us. This can only come from God. The love of God is the primary validating love we need. What each of us really longs for is to be known and loved for who we are at the deepest level. But human knowledge just doesn’t penetrate that deeply into the human soul. No one, not even our parents, has an exhaustive knowledge of who we really are. And since their perceptions do not penetrate into the deepest depths of our being, neither does their love. Parental love may go deeper than any other love because of the deep connection of kinship, but this alone is still insufficient. Only the knowledge of God penetrates into the fullness of who and what we are. Only the love of God can therefore permeate the depths of our being and affirm all that we are. The love of God is the foundation of our sense of identity and personal significance. There is no emptiness greater than when this love is absent. Conversely there is no greater joy for the human soul than the joy of this love. “Great is his love towards us!”
Ask God to satisfy your heart with his love.
Read Psalm 117
