Your The Inspiration – letting go to receive God's love

♥ "Your the meaning in my life. Your the inspiration. You bring feeling to my life. Your the inspiration." ♥ This song, by Chicago, was playing on the radio recently and a flood of memories came back to me from my high school years. I could just picture, like it was yesterday, driving down the road singing this song. It was of course a love song and being a teenager, I associated it with a boy. Oh, to be young and in love.

After I went down memory lane, I thought about who's love inspires me in my life, now. All those I love, of course. Then, a flood of emotions ascended to the forefront of my mind. My relationship with my one an only Savior, Jesus Christ, is the love of my life. So, while driving down the road I began to sing that chorus along with the radio, but this time, as a middle age woman in love with her God. He is the meaning, my inspiration, and the one who brings feeling to my life. Without Him, I would not be really loved.

I know this may sound crazy, but it's true. I have never felt loved more than by my God. He care for me like no other. He gives me hope on days I feel like there is no hope. He provides food and clothing when the money is not there. He feeds my soul with peace and comfort from His Word, the Bible. He listens to my cries and lifts me up. He gives me wisdom when I am lost. He grows my faith when I am weak. He is my friend when I need someone to talk to. He never leaves me. He never lies to me. He is my father when I need to be corrected for my protection. He forgives me for everything! He died on the cross for me. Wow! He inspires me to love as He loves. John 15:12 says, "This is My command: Love one another as I have loved you (HCSB)." To love as He loves you need to know His love for you.

Have you been disappointed by someone else's love?

Do you know how much God loves you?


Take a moment and write out all the ways God shows you His love. Praise Him with a song of your own. Let go of all the disappointments this world brings when it comes to love. Let go and receive the love Christ has for you. In return, let Him be your inspiration and share that love with someone else.

This is my prayer for you –

 ♥ "For this reason I kneel before the Father from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named. I pray that He may grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power in the inner man through His Spirit, and that the Messiah may dwell in your hearts through faith. I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height and depth of God’s love, and to know the Messiah’s love that surpasses knowledge, so you may be filled with all the fullness of God." ♥

~ Ephesians 3:14-19 (HCSB)

"Jesus, thank you for your unconditional love. I let go of what I think love should be in my life and receive your love for me. The greatest love of all! Your my inspiration and I pray I can love others like you love me."

© Carol Outhous Jones 2014