How To Love God, and Kim Walker, I Sing My Love

Recently I've been getting tired of worship songs that focus on our love for God. It's not that I don't love God, it's that many of these songs miss the point. They are from an Old Covenant mindset of our obligation to love God and not the New Covenant way of loving God. In fact, when God defines love through John, he always starts with himself, never with us. We are the responders, we cannot love until and unless he loves us first!

"In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." (1 John 4:9-10)

God is love. When we are in him, we love. When we believe in Jesus, we receive his love and then we have love to give. Ahhh, the simplicity!

So who of God's sons doesn't love to sing back in response to our father how much we love him? Once we have freely received his love for us, have experienced it, then we are free to love him back! If we try to love him under law, we will fail miserably and will not please his heart. We don't love God because we were commanded to but because he loved us first and our new nature was born to love him back! I feel like I keep repeating myself...

Anyway, I found this Kim Walker song and really like it. The verse is all about how God loves us and the chorus is our response, a beautiful picture of the love shared between Christ and his Bride I think. Hope you like it!



P.S. thanks to my husband for discussing these things with me passionately even though the rerun of the country music awards was on...