I love how you love me

  • Amber Rice Miller
  • March 17, 2014
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Summary: Amber shares that the greatest compliment we can give to God is to allow ourselves to be loved by Him. In high school, I developed a love for oldies music, the good old songs from the fifties and sixties. Ask any of my friends from high school or college and they will no doubt groan in remembrance of it. No one liked when I rode “shotgun” because they knew I would have control of the radio, which inevitably meant oldies music. Anyhow, there was a 1961 hit by the Paris sisters entitled, “I love how you love me.” I often sing those words to my Lord in an act of praise and worship. “Father, I love how you love me.” It is overwhelming to have the God of this universe love me unconditionally. He loves me through it all. When I succeed, when I fail; at all times, under all conditions, my Father loves me. I know I don’t deserve it, yet He loves me anyway. And I LOVE that! I love how He loves me! Recently I was singing that to God, and I heard God speak back to me in my spirit so clearly and say, “Amber, I love that you let me love you.” That really hit me. A few years back I wouldn’t have heard God say that to me because I would never have been singing that song to Him in the first place. I didn’t have a revelation of how much God loves me. I thought I wasn’t good enough and could never meet His standards. I pushed away God’s love because I just didn’t think I was worthy enough to deserve it. I don’t think I or anyone else will ever know how much God loves us, yet I have a much deeper grasp of it than I did before. He loves me so much that He gave up His only Son for me. I can’t imagine giving up one of my sons, whom I love so much, to be sacrificed for someone else. It makes me want to cry just thinking about it! I can sing that now because I know the new covenant of grace, that God isn’t basing His love for me on how good I am and whether I have done everything right. He is basing His love for me on the fact that He sees Jesus in me. This isn’t because I am anything great, but rather that I have put faith in the one who is great, and that is Jesus! The song I sing to the Lord is not one of pride or arrogance, but rather a song of humility. If I thought I deserved God’s love, I wouldn’t be singing that to Him. Why would I be thankful for something that I thought I already had coming to me, something I deserved or had earned? I know this love is the undeserved, unearned, unmerited favor of God, and it is all because of Jesus. As Jesus is, so are we in this world (1 John 4:17). Is Jesus loved unconditionally by His Father? Yes. Then so am I. Isn’t that good news? That’s the gospel! When God spoke those words to me it also made me think of all the people who don’t allow God to love them, just like I previously hadn’t. They look at themselves and all their shortcomings, rather than looking at what Jesus did for them. Jesus died to make us accepted in the Beloved (Ephesians 1:6). God doesn’t want us to take the sacrifice His Son made for granted. He wants us to receive what Jesus died to give us, and that is unconditional love from our Father through the blood of His Son. I love to hug and kiss and cuddle with my little boys. But sometimes they aren’t in the mood for it and don’t let me. And that hurts. I want to tell them not to push me away, just let me show my love for them. There is nothing that blesses me more than my children allowing me to show them love. And if one of those little guys would ever utter the words, “Mommy, I love how you love me,” I think that would be the ultimate compliment I could ever receive as a mother. I believe God, as our Heavenly Father, feels the same. Won’t you receive His love for you today? Remember, He did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for you! There is no better way you can bless God, than to allow yourself to be loved by Him. I pray that you will get to a place where you can sing those words to God as well, with a heart full of praise and thankfulness: Father, I love how you love me! (Questions or comments? Amber can be reached at amberdeemiller32@gmail.com)


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