Falling in Love with Jesus...

Mmmmmm... to fall in love. To be someone's beloved, not just Jesus'.... 


Those thoughts of ours are sweet, but blasphemous. To desire anything over Jesus is to whore for the world. (Judges 2:17 -They whored after other gods)

So God wants to be our everything. That includes 'husband' so to speak. In a way that He becomes our obsessive thought during our 'courting' or times we pursue Him back, for He is constantly pursuing us.

How can I allow Jesus to fulfill my relational needs by Himself? with Himself? 


I want to be loved. - "...I have loved you with an everlasting love..." (Jer. 31:3)

I want someone to adore me. - The King has brought me into His chambers to adore me. My love is       outstanding among 10,000 (see Song 1:4, 5:10) .

I want someone to hold my hand. - "...I will uphold you with my righteous right hand" (Is. 41:10)

I want to be accepted and valued. - I am accepted in the Beloved. (see Eph. 1:6)

I want help in my days of trouble. - "Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I shall rescue you..." (Psalm 50:15)

I want a champion of my causes--one who is willing to fight for me. - "The Lord will fight for you..." (Ex. 14:14)

I want intimacy. - The Lord is intimate with the upright. (see Psalm 140:13)

I want someone to help me in my life. - There is no one like God who rides the heavens to help you. (see Deut. 33:26)



I don't necessarily think I'm supposed to "date" Jesus.... but I do believe that He is more than enough to fulfill what I THINK a man is needed to fulfill. Obviously, there is no need I have that Jesus can not more than satisfy. Jesus is more than sufficient to provide for our relational needs.

Studying how Jesus wants to be my everything has made me very conscious of how easily I've taken my heart and given it so easily to others; friends and boys alike. God is a jealous God, I forget. How many times have I looked forward to a date, text, or hangout OVER God. Not that those are bad things, but the way I gave them attention when I did not give The Word a respectful or obsessive amount of time is sinful. (obsessive because thats how I become with relationships...I get too girly) My daddy once instructed me to spend more time in the Bible than I did in any other one thing. I would read a book a day and give Jesus the attention I would give a TV commercial. Proportionately blasphemous. So now, its still hard to give Jesus Word more time than a good fiction. So they've been set aside for the time being. (Jesus did that for me, the books I ordered have taken a ridiculously long time to come in.)

Norah Jones song, "The Nearness of You", is a near perfect explanation to how I feel about Jesus sometimes. Have a listen. (Mind you, its a little loosely represented)

"I need no soft lights to enchant me, (no romances), if You only grant me the right to hold You ever so tight."