Love can be measured in many different ways. One of them is through the level of commitment placed towards something or someone.
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| Do You Really Love God? |
I pray that I would love God just like those fans love their
football team. Adverse weather conditions failed to keep them from watching
their team play.
Many things in our lives – our jobs; our families; our loved
our, etc. calls for our attention. What are we going to prioritize? Our priorities
show our values. God demands the first place. We are commanded to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind” (Matthew 22:37). The Lord
said this is the first and greatest of God’s commands.
Our love for God can be seen by our commitment to Him and to
His work. Can we be justified when we excuse ourselves from attending service
because it is cold, or because it is raining, or because we don’t have clothes
to wear, or because somebody gave a sarcastic comment on your hair style?
It takes 500 liters of water to baptize a Christian and only
5 drops of rain to keep him at home. The issue isn’t bad weather but wrong
priorities. It is familiarity with the things of God that causes familiarity
and indifference. Such indifference puts a smile on the devil’s face. Satan loathes
church. He will whisper into your ears reasons why you must not attend, but if
you attend, he will give you reasons why you mustn’t participate.
Pray for the kind of heart that king David had. He wished to
be in the house of God, above all other places that he could be, and I bet you,
with his position as the king of Israel, he could afford any holiday resort. Nevertheless,
in Psalm 84:10 David says, “A day in
your Temple courts is better than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather stand at
the entrance of God's house (as a doorkeeper) than live in the tent of
wickedness.”
Will you make it your goal, that all through this year, you
won’t miss your church’s services without a tangible reason?
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