When You’re in Love
Read pg 99, a clip out of the book The Pursuit of God, by A.W. Tozer
What are your thoughts when you read this?
“Have you ever known someone who was utterly and desperately in love with Jesus?”
· What were some of the reasons you would think this about that person?
· What did they do that made you think they were utterly and desperately in love with Jesus?
Think about your lives and any true loves you have or may have had previously.
· There’s not much that could stand between you and your true love (Whatever it may be)
· Read some examples from the middle of pg 100
· Do we have those same kinds of feelings towards God?
· Read bottom of pg 100
· “Could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ was not there?”
· If we are as deeply in love with Christ as we are a lot of earthly things then there is no way that we could ever be satisfied in heaven without Christ.
Why do we try so hard to please God instead of focusing more on our love relationship with him? Gods wants us to desire him instead of merely serving him out of obligation or guilt.
· Read Galatians 5:13-14 on the bottom of pg 101
· What’s Love Got to do with it?
· “Why do most people feel they have to either pay God back for all He’s done (buy His love) or somehow keep making up for all their inadequacies and failures (prove their love)?”
· Read Psalm 63:1-5
· When we, so often, love God out of obligation (which shows through our lives and actions) then we are going to have a very hard time winning others to Christ and getting them to understand He is worth the fight to stay on that narrow path filled with so many obstacles.
Letting God into your life vs. trying so hard to prove your love to Him
· Revelation 3:20 says, Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.
· Jesus Christ not only died on the cross to save us from hell but also so that we could have Him more abundantly.
· “The fact is, I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans.”
· What are your thoughts on that statement?
· “Our prayers for more love result in love, which naturally causes us to pray more, which results in more love…”
· All we have to do is let God in and quit trying so hard to prove ourselves.
What do you have to do to get into shape?
· Train and condition your body. Is this easy at first? Is it easy once you have been training for a while? Is it easy if you do it for a week then take a week off and then do it for a couple of day then take another couple of days off?
· How does this compare to our relationship with Christ?
· The more you condition your body, love and run towards Christ the less likely you will be to wonder.
· If you tend to take the on again, off again approach you will have a hard time staying focused on the prize (God) and more focused on how difficult it is going to be to get back in shape for God. Your life will become full of excuses as to why you don’t want to train today.
· “As long as we are pursuing Him, we are satisfied in Him. It is when we stop actively loving Him that we find ourselves restless and gravitating toward other means of fulfillment.”
God is a real and wonderful being that forgives everything that we do if we ask. He loves us endlessly and only wants us to love Him in a way that it feels like love and not work.
God wants us to be real with Him
· Read Someone I can be real with on the bottom of pg 110 and top of pg 111.
Seek God actively, love God truly with all your heart, and build a God Conscience in your life!
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