Going Deeper with God

As troubled as I’ve felt over several areas of my life (both at home and at work) – I keep hearing the Lord say – love. It is so hard, yet He is telling me it is so easy. It is a choice. I just read a passage from the book ‘Deep unto Deep’ by Dana Candler. I would like to share it with you. I am seeking Him a closer, deeper walk with the one true God of Love. I pray it blesses you. 

The heart of God is ravished with enjoyment and delight over His people. We cannot pass by this quickly. We have known the concept of His love, yes, but often this very knowing and familiarity is what hinders us from ever entering into the depths and actually drinking from the deep wells of Love’s plentitude. We cannot let common words stand-in for experienced realities. To say the He loves me is a familiar notion indeed, but to pursue, know and experience His love is a rare preoccupation. Our familiarity with the words deceives us into thinking we have personally known the exceedingly vast riches that lie beyond the realm of language and in the eternal deep of God’s heart. We confuse the hearing of a concept with the actual abiding of that reality inside of us. Yet His Love is a realm that transcends all mental comprehension and leaves all utterance ashamedly barren. It is to this unknown world of eternal pleasures that we give ourselves as we begin our pilgrimage into His ravished heart.


Further excerpt [We have heard with our ears of a God of love, and we have known with our minds that in this love is our life, but have we yet been embraced by love himself?]