Guards down

While I was driving today, I was listening to a song on the radio called Hold me by Jamie Grace, I've heard this song many time on the radio and I've even sang along to it many times, but today was different. As I was listing to the lyrics carefully, I said to myself "no way, Can someone really feel that way?, the song was probably written talking about a boyfriend and she just added the word Lord in it". You see, this song talks about how she loves the way God holds her, how she is always thinking about Him and how He turns her bad days into good. The girl really seems to be in love and is enjoying her relationship with Him. It kind of sounds like she is talking to a love one. So I thought, I love God and I know He loves me but I don't express myself about Him that way so, I caught myself questioning the song, but as I kept listing to the song word by word, God speaks to my heart saying "You have not learned to enjoy Me, you haven't allowed Me to love you, you haven't learned to rest in Me". This made me start realizing that it is true and how I wished I could also express myself the same way she does. I want to learn to enjoy my relationship with God. For example, I think that when you know that someone really loves you, you go into a comfort zone in the relationship, your guards come down, you enjoy and you feel more free to love, trust and rest in that person. Well, I believe it is the same way in our relationship with God, when we understand how much He truly loves us, we put our guards down and that is when we sincerely enjoy Him. I think understanding how much God really loves us makes our walk much easier and guilt free. It makes it easier to serve and have a relationship with that God that has so much love and so much willingness to forgive and continue walking with you.

And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. - 1 John 4:16

Lord,
Help me to understand how much you truly love me, teach me how to love and help me to allow You to love me. Help me bring my guards down so that I may enjoy every moment that I have with you.