If you have ever asked: How can I find love?
I’m happy to inform you that you can’t.
Love already found you.
From the very beginning, even before you were born, Love had a plan for you. He had a plan for your future and your hope. He sought you and found you. And what He needs is for you to acknowledge and accept Him, not just today but every day. He wants you to choose Him, just as He has chosen you.
Are you willing to do that? To make room for the very thing you’ve been searching for?
It might sound simple, but it’s a powerful and life-changing perspective. Our ability to fully grasp and live in the reality of God’s love can be the difference between a life of joy and triumph and a life of fear and wandering.
“To surrender to God means to let go and just love. By affirming that love is our priority in a situation, we actualize the power of God.”
Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love
And the power of God stems from His love.
It was this love that saved humanity. The very salvation we enjoy today—and that generations to come will enjoy—is an expression of His immaculate love. He so loved this world that He gave His most precious gift: Himself.
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”
John 3:16–17
We’ve grown so accustomed to hearing this verse that we sometimes downplay the magnificence of what God did for us.
Let me remind you:
The love we have for the taking is not the fleeting love of a human being (even though that’s often the kind of love we crave). It is the love of the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. The Maker of the heavens and the earth.
The One who set the sun and stars in the sky, who drew boundaries for the seas, and who holds eternity in His hands.
He is the One who feeds the birds of the air and clothes the lilies of the field (Matthew 6:26–29). The One who parted the Red Sea for Israel and sent manna in the desert (Exodus 16). The One who gave His beloved Son to rescue us from sin and death.
This is the God who loves you.
This is the God who longs for a relationship with you.
So I’ll ask again: Do you know Him? Do you understand the magnitude of this blessing and privilege?
I know life’s trials can make us forget. The distractions of this world may cause us to doubt that we are loved by the One who holds all things together. But imagine if we could enter every situation asking, “What would Love do here? How would Love respond?”
Wouldn’t that change everything?
Because love is not just a feeling. Love is both a Person and an action.
“Once we get to the point where we realize that God is love, we understand that following God simply means following the right dictates of love.”
Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love
In other words, when we follow God, we are also following Love.
The Apostle Paul captured this in 1 Corinthians 13 when he described the character of love:
“Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
This is what love looks like in action.
I’ll be sharing more about seven things love will do for you in another post. But for now, my prayer is that you rest in this truth:
Love has already found you.
Love has already chosen you.
And Love—God Himself—is inviting you daily to walk with Him.
Amen.
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