Feb 8, 2018 What is God’s Love Language?

For years, I have been buying my wife gifts and telling her that I love her. She seemed to appreciate it, somewhat. However, it wasn’t until I read Gary Chapman’s The Five Love Languages, that I really understood why my attempts to show my wife love were not making the impact I hoped they would. I learned that my wife’s primary love language is quality time. No gifts I give her even compare to how loved she feels when I set aside an entire afternoon or day to spend time with her.

As I was pondering the idea love languages, I had a thoughtÑan interesting oneÑcould God have a love language? A way of being loved that means more to Him than anything else? I read Proverbs 23:26, which says, Give Me your heart, and something clicked.

So much of Scripture describes God wanting our true affections, our heart and mind. God cannot be compared to any human, but in my feeble mind, my relationship with my wife clued me in to understanding my relationship with God.

I have learned that my wife appreciates all ways of being loved. But if I try any of the other ways, at the expense of quality time, none of those things matter. Our relationship with God is similar. He has made His love language clear in Scripture: He wants us to give Him our hearts.

Since I came to understand this, now, before I do or say anything to love God, I first ask myself, have I given Him my heart?  That is what He wants more than anything else. When He has my heart, our relationship is on the right foundation, and when I choose to show Him love in other ways I can truly say it comes from the heart (pun totally intended).

-Pastor Filip Milosavljevic