“How do you want to be loved, God?” The soul rests patiently on His response. The heart leans in to His advance. It’s a big question. To ask God how He wants to be loved. To notice how He wants to be shown affection. To consider how Jesus deserves to be appreciated.

“How do you want to love Me?” He responds. Gentle compassion and tender transparency paint the moment of the interaction. He always defers to the one He loves. He lets her choose first. He does not degrade her. He does not ignore her expertise. He does not question her posture of heart because He already knows it is set on loving Him.

“I’m glad you asked,” she says. “I always live to please you, My Lord.”

“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.” 1 Corinthians 13:1-3

“I will never leave you without love, My princess.” His eyes scintillate and I am melting on the floor again inside the secrets of my cerebellum where the vision of His face remains an ever-present memory of the past, present and future. “I’m here,” He says. “Find My looking back at you.”

twirling

swirling

whirling

ribbons

unfurling

confetti

downpouring

in the wake

of Zion’s grace

Love… “it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.” 1 Corinthians 13:6

Love is truth. Truth is Jesus. Jesus is worthy of worship for all the ages. Worship Him in Spirit and truth, as the depths of your soul arise in flight from passion’s high.

“God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” John 8:24

He wants us to ask Him. Inquire. Require your heart to acquire a craving for what He desires. We live to love you, God.

“But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship Him.” John 8:23

God wants worship.

God wants victory.

Worship catalyzes victory.

Start with war and you end up with casualties. Start with worship and you end up with victors. Captives get liberated in the presence of worship unto the King of glory. We need His presence and His melody to usher in the freedom of heart-deep deliverance.

“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.” Colossians 3:16

The Word of Christ dwells in you when you worship and this is God’s desire that we would experience the impartation of His essence. The infusion of His power. The oneness of connection with Him. Worship connects us to our lover God. We always have a reason to praise Him, because our praise is not dependent on external factors but on internal realities of Jesus in us, the hope of glory as Colossians 1:27 says.

“Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.”

Habakkuk 3:17-18