A Sweet Love Relationship

God’s love for His bride:

For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life. (John 3:16AMP)

No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.  You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.  (John 15:13-15)

For your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called.  (Isaiah 54:5)



The love God desires from His bride:

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your [mind and] heart and with your entire being and with all your might.  (Deuteronomy 6:5)

 

The Creator of this universe…the Maker of mankind…the Redeemer…the precious Lord loves us so greatly that He was willing to give His life for us and there is no good thing He withholds from us. He has our wellness in mind and has made plans for us to prosper on this earth and for eternity – an eternity He desires to spend with us. His longing is for us to love Him in return with our entire being and that we would prioritize an intimate relationship with Him over everything else.  It is a sweet, restorative, strengthening, and empowering love that He desires to share with us. Who could resist such a love?