Loving God for God - Ma

[Eli Brayley]

Loving God for God
by Jaeson Ma

"God is most glorified when we are most satisfied in Him"

I've been thinking a lot about this quote recently. God didn't create us to serve Him, He created us to know Him. Many people think that in order to love God, we must serve God. We think, in order to receive God's blessing, we must do something to achieve it. Many Christians I know only relate to God for what He can do for them, or what He can give them. Not many seek God for God. I think God must get really frustrated when most people just treat Him like Santa Clause. God is not our employer and we are not just His employees. God created us for friendship. We were created for worship.

God is love. What He wants more than anything else is that we would seek Him for Him, and get to know Him because we want to, not because we have to. I don't serve God for what He can do for me, or for what plans He has for me. To think that would be selfish and self serving. I serve God because I love Him. I love to love Him because He is the most amazing Person I have ever known. His love is incomparable. His presence is all I need.

The Devil can take away everything in my life, my health, my wealth, my relationships, my career, my money, my life, but He can't take away my Jesus. That is one thing the enemy can never destroy. He can't destroy my love for God and God's love for me. That my friend is the one thing that will last throughout eternity when this life is over...that is, our love relationship with God. (John 17:3) That we may know Christ and Christ alone, may this be my aim.

Study the book of Job. He loved God not for what God could do for him. But Job loved God for God. Because He is worthy to be worshiped. God, I love You!

[4him]

Hi Eli,

I really enjoyed this write-up ! The following passage from 1 John dovetails with what Jaeson wrote. The last verse sums up so simply and beautifully what our motivation for living should be about : We love him, because he first loved us.

In Jesus,
John

1 John 4:10-19 :


10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

11Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

12No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

13Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

14And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

15Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

16And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

17Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

18There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

19We love him, because he first loved us.

[Eli Brayley]

Amen brother.

[runner4jesus]

:)Amen! on loving God for who God is...

[cornyflake]

Amen Jaeson and Amen John! Reminds me of Paris Reidhead's "Ten Shekels and a Shirt" where he says God is never to be a means to an end, He is the end! That is so true!

I think this is what sets us apart from muslims and hindus and every other religion in the world's eyes. You can take away everything in this world as long as we have Jesus. We can be satisfied in the worst situations because Jesus is all-satisfying and we've experienced his astonishing love. And this love is intoxicating (http://www.sovereigngracestore.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=A1345-01-51); the more we meditate on God's love for us, in the verses John gave, the more we want to love Him and, in turn, show the world love. The greatest public display of Christianity I've ever seen is the Amish a few years back. What an other-worldly forgiveness. It had the other-worldly fingerprints of Jesus all over it.