In Love...

As you can see by the picture Connor is hard not to love. I find myself constantly amazed that God would give me charge over a kid as smart and cute as Connor. It occurs to me that God looks at us the same way. Like a sculptor stands back and looks at his creation and admires the results, so God looks at His creation and says "it is Good!".

I can't imagine how God must have been even more proud of His Son who willingly laid down his life as a sacrifice for us to redeem back His formerly perfect creation that went it's own way. He said it out loud actually, "This is my Son in whom I am well pleased".

This weekend at church 6 men from Nashville, TN came to share their heart with our church and lead us to be better influences in our community as we reach out. The main thread that ran through every conversation was this: Be in Love with Jesus Christ and the rest will follow.

"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you."

I accepted Christ as my Savior as a young boy and though I serve Him and strive to be obedient (both very important) I have not been In Love with Him like I should and want to be. It seems weird to even say it like that. In Love? With Jesus? Yeah, In love. Taken with.

When we are first saved we have an infatuation so to speak. It's love in a form but not a deep love. We love Him for what he has done for us, but just like in any relationship, we have to spend time with that one we love to know more about them. To know them on a deeper level. Too often we want Jesus to fit in our 15-30min daily relationship time we call devotions and we wonder why we don't love Him.

I pray for myself and my family that we would be driven to know our God more and as we do, the infatuation will turn to deep love and devotion to Him and out of that will flow a love for others. THAT is the reason He first loved us!