Love to be Passionate About

This week is the week for Isaiah, and a bit of last week. It's really amazing. The entire book of Isiah shows God's heart for his people, like most of the prophets. He loves his people so much, it' almost crazy.

God has been teaching me so much in the last week, especially from Hosea. God has been trying to teach me how to love. And not the simple, fleeting human love, but rather a love like the love he has. A passionate love. And when I say passionate, I mean a love that is so strong that I will lay my life down for it. Because being passionate about something is caring and being so deep into it, that if it came down to it, you would die for whatever you are passionate about. It's an intense thing.
I've been praying for God to show me how to love like this. This morning we sang a song in worship that sums up what I've been praying for the last couple of weeks:

Heal my heart and make it clean,

Open up my eyes to the things unseen

Show me how to love like you have loved me

Break my heart for what breaks yours

Everything I am for your kingdom's cause

As I walk from earth into eternity

Here's the rest of the song. It's a great song. 3.43 is where that lovely refrain begins.





God is so awesome, so I know that he will give me this great passionate love. The whole reason we exist is because he has this love. So why can't I love like that?