Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Do We Really LOVE God?

I just wanted to share this. I was going through a devotional the other day and I found this very inspirational and humbling. Hope it touches your heart like it has mine.

Our love to God arises out of our emptiness; God's love to us out of our fullness. Our impoverishment draws us to that power which can relieve and to that goodness which can bless us. His overflowing love delights to make us partakers of the bounties He graciously imparts. We can only be said to love God when we endeavor to glorify Him, when we desire a participation of His nature, when we study to imitate His perfections. We are sometimes inclined to suspect the love of God to us, while we too little suspect our own lack of love to Him...When the heart is devoted to God, we do not need to be perpetually reminded of our obligations to obey Him. They present themselves spontaneously and we fulfill them readily. We think not so much of the service as of the One served. [The motivation which suggests the work inspires the pleasure.] The performance is the gratification, and the omission is both a pain to the conscience and wound to the affections...Though we cannot be always thinking of God, we may be always employed in His service. There must be intervals of our communion with Him, but there must be not intermission of our attachment to Him. 

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