For God so loved. This well-known verse, so veiled with familiarity is a powerful expression of the most central truth about God. God loves and everything else flows from this. It is so simple, and that simplicity applies to God’s will for us. God simply wants us to love and let everything in our life flow from this. Let your life become simple. Know that God loves you. Know that this is all you really need to know and ask God to download his love into your heart so that it will be more than an abstract fact. Ask God to fill you with his love and let it dawn like the light of a sunrise in your heart. You can live in the warmth and light of his love. It is all you need. This love will also bring to light everything in you that is contrary to love. God wants to release you from the burden of selfish ambitions, bitterness and envy. You cannot receive his love unless you are willing to be transformed by it. If you don’t want to change then you can’t receive his love. To receive his love, therefore, you must yield yourself to him as a living sacrifice. It is through the sacrifice of Christ that you can receive God’s love and it is your self-sacrifice to him that opens the door for this love to flood your heart, to cleanse you, to drive out your fears and bring light and joy into your life.
Ask God to pour his love into your heart and yield yourself to him.
Read John 3:16-21
