TUESDAY THOUGHT 12/8/09

December 8, 2009 on 12:54 pm | By | In Faith & Forgiveness | No Comments
How Do You Love God?
 
Several men were talking over breakfast last Saturday when the subject of loving God came up.  I admitted that I do not understand my more fundamentalist Christian friends, who often refer to a having “personal relationship with Christ” and about how Jesus loves us personally.  I do not deny it.  I just do not get it … and I do not feel it.
 
I know I am not alone.  Some of the other guys agreed that they believe in a “higher power,” who is in fact God.  And we have no problem acknowledging that God loves us as a group (as in God loving us and sending His Son to redeem us).  But I just do not know if I actually love Jesus in a personal relationship way. (I know, I know, I’m gonna hear about this one.)  I know it has much to do with helping our neighbors, but I suspect I am missing something.      
 
So, my prayer today (and once again, I suspect I’m not alone) is this:  Lord, I invite you into my heart.  I admit that I do not understand how to love you in other than an intellectual way.  So, I ask you to show me how.  Amen. — jri
 
“Love the Lord your God with all
your heart and with all your soul
and with all your mind.”
        –    Jesus Christ
               (Matthew 22:37)
 
Yes, people in Asia and Africa need out help.  But we do not have to look that far away.  Consider the elderly person in the pew across the aisle at church or the lonely neighbor on the other side of the fence at your home.  Maybe that’s how we love God, by watching after our brothers and sisters.  God bless.   
John Ingrisano
DailyConnections
204 Lakeview Drive
Algoma, WI 54201
(920) 559-3722
December 8, 2009

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