This was a quote from Francis Chan's book crazy love that I am reading currently. This one took me for a loop. I mean I don't know honestly how to answer that. When it comes to God what am I in love with? Do I strive for only salvation form torment? Part of me says yes but then there is another part. It cries out, pulls at my heart, at the core of my being that I want to be close to my creator, my savior. There's a part of me that wants to scream "Yes! I love my God!" But it's so hard.
I mean, I am still trying to figure out this whole love thing. I don't exactly have many things which scream out "THIS IS LOVE" or anything like that other than what the Word tells me about God being love. But I try and imagine it like this:
Imagine God is one of your friends in school, or form church or work. Now when you go over to God's house and see Him in all of splendor and glory and you keep going over there, you have to ask yourself why. "Why do I keep coming over?" Is it because he has a cool flat screen, or the latest games? Or is it because of something on the inside about Him? Could be he is a wonderful host, never boring, always there for you or has something to say? That there is something about His personality that draws you to Him?
That's how I broke it down. Why? Because I imagined God as one of my friends, who are some of the most important to me. It made me realize, I love Him because of what He is about not because of His gifts and things. Those are just things that come with being friends with Him, but they're not the reason for loving Him. i could say it's the peace He gives me, how happy I am and yet that still isn't enough to say, there's more and I feel i don't quite have that answer yet but it's there. Somewhere.
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