Adoration

When I'm having trouble hearing Him, God seems to stick one word in my head and lets me fixate on it until I understand what it is He has been trying to tell me all along.  A while back, I was so intently focused on Jealousy, specifically because of this song.  I wrote a little about the word Jealous on facebook, but now I regret that I did not properly journal my thoughts here on the blog, as I really believe that these studies are going to help me in the future.

Right now, I'm hearing the word "Adore" everywhere I turn. Last night, I cried myself to sleep in thankful tears of epiphany. Finally, I understand that God adores me. True, pure adoration. I always understood that I'm special and important to him. Somehow, I've internalized how important I am - how my service and actions, my deeds and love is important; but, I managed to skip over the part where God just clearly adores me.  Not only am I important and loved, I'm adored. Purely loved and thought of as adorable.

A couple of months ago, I read or heard something somewhere that inspired me to try and use the word "love" less casually.  I make an honest effort these days to stop saying that I "love" everything - pizza, ice cream, chocolate, caramel, mmm.....  cozy socks, my new phone, etc.  Instead, I try to find comparable words to describe my love for these things, but reserving the word "love" for real people and for God.  But now, I see how trivial that can be.   My focus was on my intentional use of the word love because I didn't want to underestimate the meaning.  However, if I am going to be that trite, I might as well stop saying that I love, like, adore, admire, cherish, enjoy, appreciate, etc. anything!  For, God sees me with all those compliments,  and so much more.

I was reading John 4 last night, about the woman at the well. The kids learned this story of the Samaritan woman's encounter with Jesus at Vacation Bible School and then John 4 popped up in my YouVersion reading plan.  I guess I was thinking about how the Woman must have felt to be accepted and loved by Christ when I heard God clearly tell me that He adores me.  I can't explain it any better than that - but I love that I don't have to.

If there are any readers out there that know of scriptures or songs that speak specifically of adoration, I'd love your suggestions.