How We Love Jesus the Most

I love Jesus. 

Love. A small and seemingly simple word. But it holds more power than we realize. 

I’m not an expert on the subject of love.

Instead, I held misconceptions about love as a child and young woman. And hang-ups about love formed from emotionally expensive experiences. 

You see, my father abandoned me for a time. I was grown with my own children the first time my father uttered the words I love you.

The conversation’s forever etched in my memory.

Still, as much as I wanted to hear my dad tell me he loved me, I needed to believe it. And I longed for the reassurance he meant it.

You know what? The same holds true today. My husband can never tell me or show me he loves me too many times. 

Because a continual and intentional assurance of love takes any relationship to a higher and deeper level. Pure and whole-hearted love, in the most powerful form, is a show-and-tell affection.

I Love Jesus 

Likewise, the words I love You, Jesus! rise in my heart and roll off my tongue more often these days. Why? 

Maybe I’m tired of surface substitutes for real love. Perhaps I’ve grown weary of this: what God made true about love, people made fake. And I believe Christ is teaching me about an authentic and lasting love.

Over a decade ago, I marked a spiritual milestone in my life, written in my journal. I decided to fall head over heels in love with Jesus, loving Him more than anyone or anything. 

Can we fall in love with Christ and stay in love with Him—pure and whole-hearted affection? Not only is this kind of love relationship possible, but it’s what the Lord intended all along. 

How to experience this love relationship is found in the answers to these two questions.

Love With All

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