Meditation #2

The greatest commandment.
Love God with all your heart, soul and mind.

Quite profound if you ask me. I mean, imagine shelling out $55 bucks to attend an over-crowded auditorium expecting to hear a 10 step process to improve your relationships with your wife/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend or whoever. Well, when you get to that crowded seat, you sit down to hear a big long introduction of a famous award-winning psychologist who comes out, looks real intently into the crowd and after a moment of anticipation says, "Love whoever you love with all you got."
I'd be pissed.
We want steps.
We want rules.
We want to be told how it's done.
We want to stay content with saying we love God.
But do we? I mean, what does that look like...to perfectly love God...?
Here's what I imagine it is.


When comparing loving life with loving God, life is meaningless.
When comparing loving food with loving God, food is crap.
When comparing loving football with loving God, our adrenaline is pumping to hear from him rather than the sound of a bone-crushing hit.
When comparing loving candy or soda or sweet tea with loving God, candy and soda and sweet tea becomes as bitter as black coffee compared with the sweetness of Jesus.
When comparing loving music with loving God, we sit in silence at the wonder an amazement of God.
When comparing loving love or sex or girls or guys with loving God, we would far more passionate and intimate alone with Him for all of eternity than would we ever be if we got what we wanted.

"If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased." C.S. Lewis

-Andrew-