The Spontaneity of Love

Oswald Chambers once wrote:
"But when His spirit is having His way with us, we live according to His standard without knowing it.."

There's so much beauty in love, the way God created it for us to experience.  God has unfathomable amounts of love for us, He IS love, and He wants us to experience it too. After all, He created us in the image of Him.. and even that He might allow us to experience life with Him and allow His Holy Spirit to dwell within us.... WHAT A BLESSING! and WHAT A GIFT.  And what Chambers wrote was true, love is spontaneous.. the way it bursts out of us in extraordinary ways.. It's obvious to everyone around when someone truly loves God, you can see it in everything that embodies them, their eyes, the way they speak about Him, their actions.. it pours out of them...  So often I find myself in prayer for that, whether to re-obtain it, or to not lose that emotional spark that so many people experience when they first discover God, that fire, and JOY found in their salvation through Christ (Psalm 51)

So I continue to remind myself that I can't premeditate actions that reflect love, they come naturally. I try to think about that every time I subconsciously want something from God and decide the best way to go about "receiving blessings" from Him, whether it be through more prayer, more Bible time, more anything...  My love for Him should be spontaneous always, and if I'm finding that it's not... then I need to take a step back and pray about it.  Because first and foremost He has my affections and heart, nobody else, nothing else.