Is it in our hands to love Jesus passionately? ?

Question

When we do this does he become our partner? How does he respond to us when we place all of ourselves at the cross?

Answer 1

Something does not seem quite right about this question.......

Answer 2

yes and He will listen to our thoughts and needs and love us with every step.....ive had many prayers answered thru the years!!

Answer 3

yep

Answer 4

It is in my heart to love Jesus passionately. I love Him because He first loved me, and gave Himself for me,  so that I could have Life, and that Life is in Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God. I didn't know what love was before I knew Jesus, and God demonstrated His love for us by giving us His only begotten Son, Jesus. Jesus loved us so much that He took our place, and He took the punishment that we deserved, because of the sins that we committed against God. How God has loved us! The closer I get to the Lord the more I love Him, the more I love Him the closer I want to get! He is my source for everything, Jesus is my life, my joy, my salvation, my hope, my strength, my comfort, my defense,  and every other thing that I need and desire. Where else could I go? No one else can help me, or satisfy me, only Jesus can. So I will follow Him wherever He goes, I will run toward Him and not stop until I reach His feet. He is my reward, my heart is in Heaven with Him, and with Him is where I long to be. To know Him truly is to love Him, and as my knowledge and understanding increases, so does my love for Him. My desire is to apprehend that for which I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

Philippians  3:12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

Thank you for asking this question. I hope that we all are still hungry for the Lord, that we still see Him as valuable and precious, and run after Him with all of our heart and might.

With much sincerity and love in Christ my Lord,

     Andrew

Answer 5

are you coming on to him?... im not hearing a no...

Answer 6

It is hard to give all of ourselves.  Its easy to give the good parts of us, but the parts we are embarrassed of or ashamed of, we tend to hold them closer and harder.....

Answer 7

What do you mean by passionately?

Answer 8

By partner I'm not sure what you mean. And he placed himself on the cross for us, I don't think we place ourselves on the cross..and honestly I don't really understand the question. But I don't know how to "love jesus passionately", because I don't even comprehend what it means....my spiritual journey is far from complete as u can see. Definetly a weird question.

Answer 9

Jesus loves us no matter what we do. He loved us so much that he died for us. We love Him because of this, first of all, He took our place on that cross-a man Who never sinned died for our sins.

I'm not sure of what you mean when you ask how He would respond to us when we place all of ourselves at the cross. I think you're meaning when we surrender to Him. We should surrender all to Him.  

Answer 10

Thank you Jesus for giving us free-will. However I feel tested personally by the whole significant other stamina and family responsibility (until we start having kids of course)

I believe I gave up everything though I continue to struggle with REALLY stupid media-stimulated-bs..... Then I think., yay overrnite shift.... and remember that I Still wont wake yup in time to pomote  him.... Mom just had to tale the car. ugh qKE UP IN TIMW FOR CXHIU

Answer 11

I can tell you right now that When you have accepted Jesus Christ Into your life, things change for the better. He is always watching over us, and once you do that he eill never leave you.

Temptations do get harder to resist because of that however. But I can tell you right now that the moments when i'm closest to God, praying every night and reading the bible every night, you get an overwhelming sense of comfort and strength, and jus6t about anything is surmountable. keeping it up is hard, it's easy to fall into the lethargy trap, slipping up and  getting slack, and after a while you notice the void. but he is always there waiting for you to pray to him.

Answer 12

I believe you must know him to love him, and if you do his work, mankind will put you on the cross weather you want to go or not, when Christ was about to go to the cross he prayed to the father to 'take this cup from me. of course christ suffers when you suffer for doing his work.  

Answer 13

Not really, god kind of took it out of my hands when you gave me a mind that is intelligent and rational.

I guess he wants me to burn in h**l for all eternity or he forgot to mention that I am not supposed to be rational.

Also there has been research that indicates neurology and brain anatomy can be linked to religious belief.

So that one can say that certain people are born less likely to be religious than other people.

Like homosexuals are born more likely to sin against, according to some interpretations, your god.

So to some extent we can reason, if we assume that your religion is correct and that your god exists and Jesus was the savior, we can conclude that to some extent god plays a role in what we are likely to believe and what sins we are likely to commit.

Or maybe it was satan messing with gods plan for such people before they were even born.

Talk about a Jesus freak.

Answer 14

Wow!  Religious nuts are SO CRAZY!  

It's all c**p for stupid people.  

Answer 15

Oh that I might KNOW Him.... with ever increasing measure, is the passion of my heart!

Answer 16

whoa, that sounds dirty. Um you can do whatever you want with your hands... Your choice to love, or hate whoever. If you loved me passionatly with your hands i'd become your partner and if you placed yourself on a cross... I'll just leave that one alone.

Answer 17

Are you becoming a nun? That's when He becomes your partner. Irish blessings!

Answer 18

yeah. I personally dream of a passionate relationship with Mary.