God’s Love Language

The love language that God uses with us is our obedience to what He wants from us. When we become obedient, we are trusting that God’s got us on the right path. (Related post: God’s Got This). Remember that He knew us BEFORE we were even formed in our mother’s womb. He KNEW what we could do and what we could become when we obey Him.

We need to go back to Genesis 22:1-14. This is the passage where Abraham and his wife, Sara had been given a child, Isaac. In this particular passage, Abraham is told to bring his only child and go to a mountain of God’s choosing and then to offer Isaac as a sacrifice. Could you imagine the pain that Abraham had felt!? He probably wondered why God would give him Isaac, just to turn around and ask him to kill him. However, Abraham did as God wanted him to do and brought Isaac to the place that God decreed. He prepared Isaac and was about to complete the sacrifice when he was stopped by the angels of God. God told him that because Abraham had been obedient to God’s will, he would get more than he had ever hoped for before.

At the time that we are going through whatever it is that we are going through, we are tasked with trusting God to give us what we need. Our trust and obedience shows to Him our own love language that we have for God. When we place our trust in Him, then we echo Jesus in the powerful prayer that He gave in the Garden of Gethsemane where He spoke to God the Father before His crucifixion and said “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet, not as I will, but as you will.” Even Jesus, during His time on Earth, knew that it is only when we obey God, that we can achieve what we need to achieve. Can you imagine how hard that must have been for God? He sent His own Son to die on the cross for us. As undeserving as that was, Jesus did it because it was the only way to truly rid ourselves of sin so that we could be with God in Heaven when our time on Earth is done.

We don’t need to understand how our lives will turn out, but we do need to trust God to put us on the right path. (Related post: Just going with the flow….). He’s the only one who can!

So, what did I learn from this? I can look back and see now, so many times that I went down this path and not that path, or how I seemed to be guided in a particular direction. It is only in hindsight that I now am starting to see that God had a purpose and meaning for my life. When I Let Go and Let God, I found that He carried me and made me the person that I am today.

What can you gain from this? I know that the hardest thing that anyone can do, is to stop trying to control their life. (Related post: Our God Waits). I get it. I really do! I know how hard it is to trust in something that you can’t see. It’s especially hard to trust in this day and time when it seems that evil is winning and we may even wonder where our God is. Remember though that God has a plan. You are part of that plan. Just know that your peace will only come when you give your will over to God. Trust in Him to know what He’s doing.