God’s delight

For quite sometime now, I have been praying this one prayer for the Last Adam Tabernacle (LAT) family - that we all might love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength.

Although I address to the Father the individual and specific needs of the people, when it comes to the corporate LAT family, what always comes to mind is that, “They may be great lovers of God.”

When Jesus was asked what He considered the greatest (first) commandment, He said, “The first of all the commandments is . . . you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the first commandment” (Mark 12:30).

My understanding therefore is that we should all desire to be what Jesus and God consider to be the greatest - loving Him with everything in us. However, simply desiring something does not obviously make it happen. Wishing to wholly love God is the first step, the next being praying for God to enable us to do it; for in our carnal selves, there is no ounce of real love for anything worthwhile. It's for that reason therefore, that I always pray for you, that God may aid you, to love Him with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. I earnestly desire and pray that as LAT, we might be the greatest lovers of God.

When I (we) pray to love God that way, this is how I believe God will start to answer us - He will reveal unto us, in increasing measures, how much He loves us. For when we know the extent of His love for us, only then shall we love Him in the same like proportion. This is why John wrote, “We love because He first loved us,” 1 John 4:19.

There are many things we children of God need, and He longs to hear those requests because He is a loving Father. And being faithful, He often will give us the very things we asked of Him. Though that is true, I believe God receives the greatest delight when He sees and hears us pursuing the greatest there is - loving Him. It behoves us therefore that in all our asking and praying, we should never forget to request for the “loving enablement.” We should pray as Paul did in Ephesians 3, to comprehend what is the width and length and depth and height - to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge. For we can love God, only after knowing how He loves us. 

Pray for me therefore, as I pray for you too, that God's highest desire for us is fulfilled in our lives - to love Him with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.

God bless you.