Friday, October 12, 2012

How to Date Jesus

Ephesians 5:10- Find out what pleases the Lord.

Ladies: You put lipstick on, but not too much. Your perfume smells like vanilla, and your hair is down and neatly done. The dress that adorns your body is one that you rarely wear, but this is a special occasion. You're going to go out on a special date with just you and you true love. He'll be here any minute, so you quickly add a necklace to your adornments, grab your purse, and walk to the door to wait for the guy that makes your heart pump every time you see his face.

Gentlemen: You're nervous. She's beautiful. You want to just wrap her up in your arms and take her anywhere she wants to go. Her personality has a hold on you. You shave, put on her favorite cologne and slip on your deep red dress shirt. You put on your shoes and grab your car keys. She'll be waiting and that makes you even more anxious to see her.

Love is strong and something that is strongly desired. It is the cornerstone for almost all movies, music, and books in this day and age. The message that the media sells is, true love concurs all.

Sometimes, love shapes the way we live our lives. We do things like stay up late, and give up time with friends to devote it to the one we love. Love shapes our lifestyle.

What if you don't have someone to love? Well just imagine that you did, what would you act like? Grumpy? Upset? Easily angered? Probably not. You'll put your best forward for this person, because you want them to be happy. You want them to smile to laugh, to love you. So you selflessly do things for this person to make them happy.

How much more should we be doing this for Christ. Jesus died on the cross for our sins, and loves us more completely than anyone can possibly ever love us, and we don't even act like He's in the room with us. We're suppose to be putting our best forward for the one we love to see, but we don't. We confess to others that our love for Jesus is the strongest thing in the world, but we don't even act like He's there. When you love someone, you will put your best forward when in their presence. Well, we're in his presence all the time.

You can't escape Him, and you don't want to. We should be learning how to court our Lord every day. What would you do for your date?

You would study them. We should be doing the same for Christ. Study his word. Find out more of his Character. What are his likes? What are his dislikes? Write them down so that you can put the likes into practice and stay away from the dislikes.

You would talk to them A LOT. We should be doing this with Jesus. How can we get to know someone if we don't ever talk to them? We can't! Communication is the key to a relationship. Some people think that by just reading the bible is enough to have a active relationship with Christ. Think of it this way, if I were to just sit there and stare at the one I loved all day every day and never say anything to that person, would they ever know that I love them? Would they ever know anything about me? Would they ever know what I'm feeling? What I like? What I dislike? What my name is even? Well yes, Jesus does know all of those things, but don't you think he likes to be told. Just because I read your facebook and know every single fact about you, doesn't mean that I actually KNOW you.

You would love on them. Jesus loves praise too. In fact, that is what we were put on this earth to do! Glorify the Lord in all we do. If you were in a relationship and never told your partner what you liked about them, then your partner would probably have some major insecurities. Well, tell Jesus how awesome he is! Thank him for his gifts to you every day. Every breath that you breath is a gift from God. Let him know how much he means to you.

And Finally, You would live like you are in a Relationship. If you had a person that you loved, would you go off and flirt with other people? Absolutely not! Yet we do this to Jesus all the time. We flirt with the world. We go and set our eyes on other things that we have set higher than him. If you had a girlfriend/boyfriend, this would not fly. You can't live like nothing has changed in your life. Because that would hurt your partners feelings. We must live like we're in a relationship with Jesus. We talk about him, we can't get enough of him! People WILL KNOW that we are in love with him.

Live like you are madly in love with him. Because he is madly in love with you.


~Whatsoever Things Are True
Philippians 4:8