Have you ever loved
the Lord with all of you? Can you
honestly say that He is so powerfully wonderful to you that you desire nothing
else in life but to love and be loved by Him?
Let's face it. We rarely love the
Lord in that way. We may have momentary
flashes of such intense love for Him, but it soon fades away amid the many
happenings of our lives. We try to love
Him as we should, but we find ourselves acting in an unloving way. So, are we excused? Should we resign ourselves to being failures
at love? I don't believe so. I believe we should continue to strive to
love Him; we should continue to do those things that would feed the flame of
love: daily devotions, faithful worship, faithful involvement in the life of
the church, and faithfully serving the Lord in all we do.
We struggle with
loving the Lord as we should and fail to love others (and ourselves) as we
should. We fail mainly on an earthly
plane because we first fail on the heavenly plane. We can't love others as we should unless we
first love God and then ourselves as we should.
Love requires respect. Until we
respect the object(s) of our love, we will never really love. There are many infatuations that we think are
love, but they aren't the real deal.
Love is best defined
by God because He is love. Check out
what He says love is in I Corinthians 13:4-8a.
Love is not an emotion we feel at the moment, it is a life we live every
moment. It is a connection with God that
never comes unplugged. It is letting the
Lord be the source of all we are. It is
striving to be more and more like Him as we journey through life.
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