Just let Him love you

I was struck on friday at easter camp by how Jesus gave up His dignity for us, at how He gave up absolutely everything. The morning speaker called us to give up something which was getting in the way of coming to God as a whole people, not as individuals. For me I knew it was my dignity. Sure, I had to give up my earthly dignity, but in return I receive Godly dignity, which is what matters for eternity. People my ridicule me, they may hate me, they may tease me, and they may strip me of my dignity. But God clothes us with dignity. A dignity that cannot be replaced. A dignity which surpasses all worldly fame and love. A dignity which lasts forever.

It struck me at how God didn’t put us one earth for us. He didn’t put us on earth for our gratification. He didn’t put us on earth because He was lonely or bored. God doesn’t need people to make Him feel superior. He doesn’t need sinners to make Him feel excited or mighty. He doesn’t need us to make Him laugh. He needed us because He needed someone to love, and them to love Him back. God put us on earth for Him. He put us on earth to live for Him and to praise Him. What is heaven for? To praise God!! Therefore, as on earth as it is in heaven, we need to praise the Lord Almighty. We need to love Him because He first loved us. We need to worship Him and devote our lives to Him.

God just wants us to love Him. How simple is that? Love. He’s called us to have Him, the Creator, the Saviour, the Lover to love Him. To have Him as our first love. We should be utterly in love with Him. I don’t know about you,but I need someone like God that I can love whole heartedly. That I can love with a passion that causes me to give up my dignity, that causes me to forget about the world, but to strive to praise Him in my faith, love, and purity.
I want God to be my first love. My true love. God is so beautiful. God is just calling out our names, whispering them in our ears. Whether or not you can hear Him, He just wants you to run into His open arms.

Life may be hard, you may not like what ‘He’s done in your life’. But He loves you with a passion which sent His Son to earth. A Son which did no wrong, did no offence. Yet we condemned Him to die on a cross. He took our sins onto His shoulders and died.

Just let Him love you like He made us for.