Loving God

“Love me as I have loved you”
John 13:34

Your love relationship with God is what spurns your prayer life or your attempts at communicating with the God you love and who loves you. For example it can be compared to your human loving relationships. Some meet their spouse and it is love at first sight, others gradually see the beauty of their spouse and develop their interpersonal communication on a gradual basis. Or take a look at your loving relationship with your parents for another analogy. It will take different forms at different times of your life, but it does start from your earliest memories of their total love for you as infants and children and then we gradually learn how to respond to that love in a growing maturing way as we age. There are times when we let the relationship go by the wayside, the most obvious being in high school or college years. We take that love of parents for granted and do very little to respond to it except on the major holidays like Christmas and, of course, Mothers’ Day. But as we grow older we can deepen that communication, that loving relationship. We get better at responding to God’s love for us.