Being Beloved

Being beloved is actually a lifestyle that comes from being intimate with God. When you say you are someone’s beloved, you are intimate with them. You don’t see your beloved once every ten years. You think about your beloved, you want to spend time with your beloved, and you long for your beloved. All these are qualities of an intimate relationship. Being beloved is learning to be intimate with God. That is why we need to learn how to be God’s beloved and have belovedness (this is a Michael word that is probably not in Webster’s dictionary). 

Part of being beloved means that God wants to have an intimate relationship with us. We need to know how God looks at us. God does not have a big scale and say the right stuff outweighs the bad stuff. He already decided to take out the bad stuff when Jesus died for us on the cross. We are beloved because Jesus died on the cross. Jesus was the beloved of the Father and because He died for us, we are God’s beloved, not because we are so good. Only our relationship to Jesus can do that for us. 

Now the Father sees all of us as being His beloved because He looks at us as He does His son Jesus. Jesus is beloved to God and so are we when we repent of our sins. Jesus is our righteousness, and our holiness because He is our righteous because He died to pay the penalty of sin for us. 

How does God see us from His heart? This is a condition of intimacy because God has a heart relationship with us. God loves us with His heart and not just His head, and we are beloved because His heart is toward us. We are not just beloved because He thinks about us. If you had a beloved and he walked into the room, you would be likely look at them all the time they were in the room. That’s how God looks at you and His eyes are always on you. God has eyes of love toward you because He is madly in love with you. These are eyes of love and not eyes of just examination. When He watches you, He says there is My beloved. His beloved eyes and thoughts are full of overwhelming love toward you. His eyes are filled to overflowing with love for you. He looks toward you with great mercy and not judgment. If His eye is always on the sparrow, His eye is surely on you. 

God’s ears are always listening for you. God does not take a break and tell you to stop talking because there are more important matters in the universe. When we speak, God’s ears are always open to us and wanting to listen because we are His beloved. When God’s beloved speaks, He listens even though our words may sound very trite to us. God says, “When my beloved speaks, his words are very important to Me and I always listen.” When we speak blessing to each other, it is a sign that we are His beloved and accept His love for us. He loves to hear us as we speak of our love for Him in praise and worship and in conversation. He is moved when we speak with compassion, love, and understanding, for our brothers and sisters, and the world. 

With every beat of God’s heart, He is loving me because I am God’s beloved. We are the passion of God’s heart because we are His beloved. His heart beats with love for us because God’s heart is the center of His being. While His heart beats for you, it calls out your name. Every beat is full of great love for you because He wants so much to be with you. The desire of His heart is that He be one with you and that we would be one together. We are in a constant state of BEING LOVED by God. God is fully devoted to our best with every beat of His heart, no matter what response we make to His love. 

God’s mind is always on me. If I love someone, I think about him or her often. God’s plans are perfect and He always knows what He wants to do, but He is still thinking about me. He wants to think about me not because He is moving a chess piece but because He loves me. His mind is full of pleasure because He is thinking about the good plans that He has for me. He always wants to bless me with His thoughts and His ideas which are the best and most brilliant in the universe. His mind is thinking about the love that He has poured into my life. His mind wants me to understand His character and nature and use it in my life and the lives of others around me. 

God is always giving me His best. You do not give your beloved the shoes that have been in the closet eight years. You go and buy the best things for your beloved that would meet their needs. Jesus Christ died for us so that He could buy the best from the Father. His death paid for all of our sins and mistakes. He gave up all so that we could have all of the Father’s blessings. The Father made a covenant with us to give us the best because His Son Jesus gave us the best. When God gives us His best, it is awesome, because He thinks that His beloved deserves the best. God’s best for us is so fantastic that it will take forever to reveal it to us. There will be no end to the love and goodness that He will pour out upon us forever. It will take us forever to love, serve, worship, and adore Him. We will be overjoyed by the goodness of His perfect provision for us. 

God is always thinking ahead so that He can take care of me. He plans and provides for your needs even before we know that we need something. He knows what we need and He takes care of these needs. God is great enough to provide my needs even when we make mistakes. His plans are perfectly in place and will not be disturbed no matter how I react. God will enable us to finish what we are to do for Him because we are his beloved. We are not failures, we are beloved. God wants us to be part of His plan. 

The Lord always wants us to be part of His plan. He has a plan for each individual person no matter what choices we make. We are an important part of the action because we are here, and God considers us to be beloved people. We are here just because God wants us to be here to share in God’s plan to build His kingdom until He calls us home. We may not understand the plan, but God considers us important enough to be here participating in it right now. Our Lord wants us to be faithful in what we know we should do. It is His responsibility to tell us if He wants us to do something different. We will have forever to rejoice with joy and delight in His plans and marvel at their depth and perfection. 

God’s hand is close to mine because we are His beloved. He would often think, “I cannot wait to touch my beloved again because it is wonderful to touch someone that I love so much.” God loves to touch us with His presence, with His love, and with His power. The hand of the Lord is guiding you safely bringing you to where He wants you to be. He knows how much our frail frames need His touch. He knows that without His guidance and protection we would be hopelessly lost. God knows every part of you and yet still loves you. You are His beloved and there is nothing that He does not know. He knows the hairs on your head and how many eyelashes you have. He knows how many breaths you have left to take. He knows the next word that will come out of your mouth. He knows you intimately, completely, and still calls you His beloved. He knows everything you are going to do, still loves you and accepts you as you are. 

Because you are His beloved, He gives you freedom. He lets us make our own decisions and gives us the freedom to choose. It makes one feel loved when they have the freedom to choose courses of action that reflect our individuality. We have freedom to be quiet or to yell, freedom to cry or to laugh, freedom to express anger, frustration or deep love. When freedom comes upon you, you can soar close to Him for the wings of freedom grow on His beloved. These wings give perspective on the height and depth of God’s love for us. 

Love, trust, and freedom, are the treasures and the joy of the beloved. These only serve to deepen and enrich the love that is shared together. We are the beloved of God and we can feast together on the banquet that He sets before us, which is a celebration of life that will never end. 

My beloved allows me to make mistakes and uses them to help me grow in my life. God knows that I am going to go out and make mistakes today, but He uses them in my life to even bless other people. He does not say you are My beloved only if you don’t make any mistakes today. We are used as we are but will also be treasured for what we are and what we will become. Being beloved means you are covered. Being beloved means that God does not just use you when you are perfect but He uses you when you make mistakes. 

When someone is beloved to you, he gives you everything he can and does not hold anything back. When you are beloved, your beloved loves you more than himself. This was demonstrated when God sent His son Jesus to suffer and die for on the cross. My beloved wants to be with me forever and give me His kingdom. Do we know anyone who walks up to us and says “I want to be with you forever, and I want to give you everything that I have”? This is how God treats His beloved. 

My beloved has a plan for every move I make that is good or bad. Nothing escapes his loving eye. Nothing fools or frustrates Him. He anticipates our decisions and uses them for His good. The whole course of history is in His hand. Our lives are His to use as He desires; even if we do have the free will to choose. God has a plan for everything because we are His beloved. We are safe and saved because we are His beloved. 

My beloved wants me to have authority in heaven and on earth. He wants us to have authority over sin or evil or anything that comes against the kingdom of God. We have authority to love and build His kingdom. Because we are God’s beloved, we have authority to speak in His name. We can bring life, pray for the sick, and wounded hearts. In heaven we will rule and reign with Him throughout all that He has created. 

He wants to give me the friendship of His loved ones now and forever. My beloved loves me so much that He will share all His friends with me. We will be able to share and experience the goodness of God over and over again through the lives of the beloved who are with us in heaven. God will not be jealous or stingy with His loved ones. We will all be His beloved together. God has made the most wonderful people in the universe and they will all be our friends. Being beloved means that one day we will no longer be bound by time and space. 

My beloved wants to give me His mind and His heart. God will have us think and feel as He does. We will use this to work for Him, serve Him, love Him, and rejoice in Him. We will not be separated from Him because we are His beloved. We will constantly and continually move in the presence of God with His presence ever before us. 

God wants to be intimate with me and give me His affections. We will be thrilled and overwhelmed with the affections of God. Be prepared to be thrilled with God because God is thrilled with His beloved. Our hearts will be completely filled with His affections because we are His beloved. Out of this overwhelming love for us He will choose to reveal Himself to us. We will be captivated and completely awestruck by Him. My beloved will reveal parts of Himself that we never dreamed existed because of His desire to be one with us. It is the nature of love to reveal and make itself known. The Lord will reveal His passionate love for us and we will be passionately in love with Him because that is the inheritance of being the beloved of God. He is excited about being with us forever because He made us for just this reason. Beloved means to BE-LOVED and we are loved very much by the God who made us to love us.