God Wants My Love for My Sake

Satisfy us in the morning
with your unfailing love,
that we may sing for joy and be glad
all our days.
Psalm 90:14

There is so much to know of God’s love that, even in the moments when we feel completely loved, there’s more. A. W. Tozer wrote of the knowledge of the love of God stretching out before us like a vast ocean. No matter how deep we dive, we can go deeper still.

Moses wrote Psalm 90 during the time he was leading the children of Israel through the desert to the Promised Land. The challenges of leadership, as well as the difficulty of navigating the barren desert, led Moses to express the deep longing to be more satisfied with God’s love: “Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love” (Ps. 90:14).

“God’s desire for you is that you feel so satisfied with His love that you would go through life singing.”

I remember a season in my life when I knew intellectually that God loved me. After all, the Bible told me He did, which meant He was under contractual agreement to love me. But I wrestled with this: Could a God so vast feel love for me emotionally? Was it a cold, distant, non-emotional sort of love that merely put up with me?

As I studied God’s Word, praised God by faith for His love, and continually cried out for more of His love, I began to realize that God’s love was deeply emotional. He longed for me with an ache in His heart. He felt for me beyond what the most romantic lover would feel. And His desire was for me to not only know His love intellectually, but also to feel and experience His love for me. This was the apostle Paul’s desire for the Ephesian believers, that their roots would go down deep into God’s love and they would have the power to understand and experience how wide and long and deep God’s love was for them (Eph. 3:17–19).

Friend, God’s desire for you is that you feel so satisfied with His love that you would go through life singing.