"Your wish is my command"

Have you ever heard it said by someone in love, "I would do anything for you," "Your wish is my command," "What makes me happy is to please you"... a person in love is willing to do almost anything to please his/her other. But the phrase that really struck me was "Your wish is my command." In 1 John 5:3 it says, "This is love for God: to obey his commands..." and in 2 John 1:6 it says, "And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love." So God's WISH is that we LOVE... love our neighbors, love our enemies, love God. And if we truly love God, his wish is our command... but what a command... LOVE!

According to Romans 13:10 "... love is the fulfillment of the law." Put this way, it doesn't sound burdensome at all. However, in a sense it actually makes me sound more selfish because at times the only person I'm wanting to love is myself. As I see it, we are programmed to love... that love can either be self-centered or other-centered and God-centered.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to fall in love with Jesus or to recapture that first love you had for him? Then, instead of saying... "man, do I have to do (such and such)?" which is self-love talking, we can say with joy and anticipation, " I would do anything for you Jesus, what would you have me do today?" God already loves us and would do anything for us (specifically that which is for our good), so all we have to do is fall in love with Him.

Father, show me how to fall in love with you. I want to be madly in love with you and not myself.