Do I love God?
January 29 20091 Corinthians 2:9-10 says - However, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him" but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.
Many Sundays I talk about examining our own heart and motives. This passage helps us examine what we think about God.
There is a lot to think about here. I think it is very interesting that in God’s word he describes his followers in this verse as “those who love him” He could have said anything here – God’s people, His followers, those committed to him. But that is not what he said. He said, “those who love him.”We know that God loves us and leads us and directs us. That is clear in scripture. We know that we are to accept him, follow him, obey him etc. But do I love him? Is that how God sees me? Does he see me as the one who follows him or the one who loves him? Do I love God or just follow him and obey him and serve him? I know what Jesus said – If you love me you will keep my commands. I have preached that, but when I say I love God are there any deep feelings for him? Do I long to be with him? How about this – Do I just put up with God so that someday I can go to Heaven? I am not trying to be blasphemous here, I am just asking questions that we all need to ask.
I am not a touchy feely person so I tend to ignore that in relationships. I know that God loves me with Agape love and that is an unconditional love and I am supposed to love God with an Agape love, but do I have a friendship love with God? Or how about a family love toward God. I am afraid at times that we have taken the emotion out of Agape. For God so loved (agape) the world that he gave his son. There was emotion in the Garden when Jesus was praying about the upcoming crucifixion. That happened because he loves us.
King David followed, obeyed and served God, but when you read the Psalms you can see that King David loved God. God was special to him. He longed to be with God.
An example of this might be how our older generations viewed marriage and divorce. Marriage was a commitment so you didn’t break it. That is noble. But then you saw examples of parents, grandparents, or great grandparents who were committed to the family but over the years couldn’t stand each other. We call that keeping your commitment, but the love was lost along the way. Don’t let that happen in your relationship with God. Don’t just stay committed and lose your love for him.
Jesus shows us in Revelation that we should not lose our first love. John tells us we love him because he first loved us. Think about it.
zài jiàn
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