My soul clings to you,Your right hand upholds me.
In our love for God, I believe it is easy to have an “eros” (or erotic) kind of love. Being caught up in the experience and awe, we are full of excitement and our desire for this experience becomes lustful and dangerous. The experience overshadows God.
It is so easy to be constantly seeking the “emotional high”, the “movement of God”, “the power”, instead of understanding the true greatness of who God is and trusting His character. We become in love with and addicted to some experience and not God, Himself. Just as one is more interested in the physical experience than the person.
But there is a deeper love, an “agape” love, that is interested only in God and not some idolized version of what we want or an “experience” we desire to have. We take Him for who He is and trust Him for who He says He is. It is coming to know (in the biblical sense) God, in a deep and full way. You don’t need a “movement” of God or have to see some “power”, or even to feel anything, because His character thoroughly satisfies you.
In the Bible, love is not a noun, the focus is not what we feel or an experience, but what we do. You can seek an experience, or you can seek God.
