Expressing Our Love
I’m Joni Eareckson Tada. You know, when you are in love, you just can’t keep it to yourself! You just have to tell that person who holds your affections; I do that with Ken. But I don’t do it to flatter him; I just, well, it comes out because I love him so. It feels better when I express my affection for Ken. In the same way, we are more happy when we tell God we love him, too; when we express our love in praise. We don’t do it to try to win him over or to impress him. No, rather, praise should be an overflow of a happy heart. C.S. Lewis said, “It’s not out of a compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are. The delight is incomplete until it is expressed.” In the same way, we delight to praise God because our praise of him not merely expresses, but it completes our enjoyment. Oh, friend, that’s what lovers do. And when it comes to the God we love, it is what Christians, you and me, should do, too.
© Joni and Friends
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