I have been praying lately for God to make me so in love with him that it’s uncomfortable…
It is amazing how strongly God answers prayers that coincide with his will.
There are emotional highs, one-night experiences, and similar scenarios that you may think of when you hear this. But it’s not the same. Because emotional highs and one-night experiences are not permanent. Being so in love with Jesus that you can’t speak and can’t sit still but don’t know what else to do and feel like a kettle boiling water without a spout to release the steam…that is permanent. That is real.
- What if you prayed for God to remove your understanding of “impossible” and replace it with love for him?
- What if you asked God to do what you don’t think he could? (Which often has more to do with ourselves and less to do with signs and tests…)
- What if you prayed for God to make you uncomfortably in love with him?
Because when we pray for what Jesus wants—and we do this because there comes a time when we realize that our deepest and strongest desires are exactly the same as his—instead of what we think we want; when we pray for him to increase and for us to decrease (Jn 3:30); when we pray for his will to be done (Mt 6:10); when we pray for things that bring glory to the Father (Jn 14:13); when we pray for things God wants he answers. It doesn’t matter how big or how small, how fathomable or how impossible, how realistic or how outrageous. God wants us to ask him to do what he wants to do. And he then wants to use us to do it.
Don’t be the brother of the prodigal son, who spent so much time doing things he thought his father would like that he didn’t even know what was going on in his father’s house (Lk 15:25-26). Pray for God’s heart to be revealed to the church, pray for our desires to diminish and his to be magnified (Ps 9:20), pray for these things so that his praises and glory and majesty is lifted up (Ps 9:13-14), and pray for everyone that knows Jesus to be uncomfortably in love.
Because you can always be more in love with God. Just another benefit of him being infinite and all.
