When we value someone or appreciate them, we can’t help but want to express our love. Our love should cause us to want to make the other person happy. As Christians, we want to show our love to our Heavenly Father, but how can we? What are some simple and consistent ways to show love to God?
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The idea of loving someone is the easiest to picture when we envision new courtships. We can relate to giving flowers “just because,” getting an unexpected note, or phoning to say “I love you.” New couples show love in their reciprocal actions and not just words. Their thoughts are toward each other, and they want to spend as much time getting to know each other as possible. The Bible tells us we should love God because He first loved us (1 John 4:19).
Show Love to God By Consistent Actions
The other day, while at the store waiting to check out, I heard young people talk about falling in love. As an older and wiser soul, I giggled a little because I realized love is much more than a feeling. Love is a decision and a choice made every minute of each day. Love takes work and consistency. We show love to God with our consistent behavior, but the primary action that God desires is our obedience to His commandments.
As Christians, we should want to grow closer to our Heavenly Father, and we should desire to show Him our love with our obedient actions. We demonstrate our love to God with consistent efforts, not based on how we feel or any fleeting circumstance. God asks us to show love with our hearts, souls, and minds. In other words, He wants us to be “all in” and committed.
We show love to God by trying to live a crucified life as Jesus did. We should strive for God’s commandments, telling us to love Him and others. As long as everything is new and fresh and seems to be going well, it may be easy to show love. What is important to remember is that we must show love even when it is not easy.
Show Love To God Even When We Don’t Feel Like It
God asks us to follow and obey at all times. He wants us to do the right thing not based on our feelings but out of obedience and love. As Christians, we show love to God even when we don’t feel like it by obeying. There will be days that we do not feel like praying, studying our Word, or serving others.
We may not always feel like doing what is right, but we must analyze what we value in our hearts in those moments. We must determine if we are doing Godly duties based on our desire to please God. We also must be careful to ensure our motives are not self-serving or egotistical.
If governed by His Spirit and Word and not our emotions, we will love God and what He loves. God loves people, and He wants us to share the good news with others so that they can become children of God. As Christians, we must have a love for God and love for others. Everything we do for God should align with love because God is love (1 John 4:8 ).
Show Love To God Even When We Are Afraid
There will be times when following God means that we consistently obey Him despite our fear. We must show love to God even when we are afraid. We must show that we can be trusted to be light, consistently go, do, and serve even when scared or nervous. The enemy will bring feelings of fear. We must expect that and decide to obey God even when we are afraid.
Sometimes, we will be afraid of what others think, or we will fear making a mistake. These fears stop us because we worry more about our comfort, image, or ourselves. We must put our egos and feelings aside and be ready to ask God for the courage and faith to overcome our fears when we know that our obedience will bless God and His people.
Show Love To God Even When It Seems Hard
Sometimes, we believe that something is too hard. Perhaps the task to complete seems like it will take too much time commitment, or we think we can not do it with our human strength. As Christians, we are all a work in progress. God wants us to be consistently obedient even when it seems hard.
In this journey with God, there will be changes to how we think and live that feel easy to do and changes that seem too difficult. For example, to some, reading the entire Bible, going back to school, or kicking a bad habit would seem unattainable, but we must be careful not to tell ourselves that we can not succeed. God promises to help us. We must remember that with God, nothing is impossible (Luke 1:37), and we can do all things in His strength (Philippians 4:13).
God will continue to challenge each of us to be better. He will lead us to have a deeper relationship with him and to become more trustworthy and consistent. We can expect God to nudge us toward letting go of our feelings and to love Him more from a deeper place in our heart, our innermost part. God will continue to call us to be faithful and consistent despite our feelings.
A Prayer to Show Love To God
The best way to show love to others is to spend time with them. Reading and studying the Bible, praising God, and praying are all the ways we spend time with our Heavenly Father. As we read and study the Bible, we pray and ask God to help us understand what we are reading. As we praise God, we also pray and thank Him for all of the prayers He has already answered and the ones to which we trust He will respond in His time.
Prayer is so important. Everything we do should begin with prayer. As we pray, we should ask God for forgiveness, strength, love, and wisdom to carry out all He has asked of us for His glory. Let’s pray together.
