Loving you...

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul and with all your mind." Matthew 22:37 These are Jesus' words...again "Love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul and with all your mind." As I contemplated this today I don't know that I could fully grasp all that was being asked of me. I want to. I want to say of course I do. I love my Savior with all of my being, but I want to answer truthfully. I want to understand what it is like to give that kind of love. 

As I was reading today I can across a verse that described Jesus "Your head and hair white like wool, your feet like fine bronze fired in a furnace, Your voice like the sound of cascading water, Your face shining like the sun at midday. When I saw him I fell at his feet as though dead." Revelation 1: 14-17 This description is spoken in awe, by someone that understands what it is to be awestruck. I'm searching for that depth in my relationship with my Savior. I think we throw around the words love and awe too lightly in our society. We talk about loving our spouse, our Savior and then turn around and say we love dessert or a movie. It is just mind boggling. No wonder we have such difficulty  understanding what it means to truly love God, but that is my desire to truly be in love with my Savior. 

I look around and I see the beauty of His creation and see how truly blessed I am, but I want my love to be deeper still. Romans 1:20 says "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities - his eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." In the evening when the sunsets and I see the beauty of His handiwork I'm amazed. I know He is there. His evidence is everywhere, but am I in love? I want to be! I'm getting there. I want Jesus to be at the forefront of my every thought. I don't want to serve just because I'm commanded to serve, I want to serve my Savior because I love Him and I want to please him. 

My heart has been stirred. In Proverbs 8:17 He tells me "I love those who love me and those who seek me early and diligently shall find me."  I know that my Father loves me, now it's my turn. My turn to seek Him, to learn to truly  love Him. It is easy to say I love Him, but my prayer is that others will long to know Him, because of my deep love for Him. 

"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live just not I but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." Galatians 2:20

Until next time...