More Love to Thee

Monday, April 27, 2015 (7:58 a.m.)

Blessed Holy God,

As much as I love You, I know I want to love You more. Better. Much more openly. Honestly. Willingly. Genuinely.

I spoke of Your Word on Saturday. Stating out loud how I long to be able to love as You would have me love. Believing the best, not the worst (1 Corinthians 13:7). I shared to not having been trained this way. And the fact that trying desperately on my own to overcome it only leaves me lacking.

Father, I confess my fault finding to You. The comparisons I make. My own inability to achieve love as Your Word dictates.

How I thank You that You don't leave us alone in our incompetence. You are ever here to guide. Direct. Intervene.

Thank You that as I set about comparing 1 Corinthians 13:7 in the various translations and paraphrases I have at my disposal, You reminded me through The Hymnal for Worship & Celebration to look again at Philippians 1:9.

Tears rim my eyes, waiting to fall. Yep. There go the first two, beginning their slide down my cheeks before being quickly brushed away. How different these past many years would have been had I chosen not to heed Your call to seek forgiveness from one I had hurt.

Overwhelmed is a perfectly descriptive word of me right now. I see where I want to be as a lover of Yours. And I compare it to the stuntedness of my growth. Get me out of Your way I pray. Line me back up with Your best, not satan's worst.

Continuing to ask, seek and knock (Matthew 7:7), believing on the Lord Jesus to save us (Acts16:33) I tearfully sing out ♫More Love to Thee, O Christ, More love to Thee! Hear Thou the prayer I make On bended knee; This is my earnest plea: More love, O Christ to Thee, More love to Thee!♫

The second verse describes my cravings for earthly joys, seeking peace and rest. How I ask that You would turn my sights to genuinely searching ♫Thee alone♫. All the while knowing and believing that You will ♫give what is best♫