Deuteronomy 6:5 – Love God, your God, with your whole heart: love him with all that’s in you, love him with all you’ve got! (MSG)
Moses was telling Israel to listen obediently and do what they were told by God – his God, their God, the only God. But the biggest thing they had to do was to love God with everything they had.
God didn’t want the people of Israel to love him as a friend, He wanted them to love him as their Father, as their God.
Nicholas has a friend in his first grade class named Cassidy. She is a little red head with freckles and so cute. Nicholas plays with her at school and talks about her here at home and says he ‘loves her’ and this is from his six year old heart.
The other day he came home upset because he thinks she is lying to him. Rebecca asked why do you think that? And he answered, ‘I told Cassidy I loved her and she just looked at me and said we were only friends. So she is lying because someday she will say she loves me.’ Nick was upset to hear her say those words.
After listening to Nick’s story, it made me think about how many times God will tell us he loves us and how many times we look at Him and say we are only His friend. I bet God gets upset when he hears that from us.
God, to some may be just a friend, but to a Christian, he is so much more than that. He is God, our God and the only God and we need to love him with everything we have and we need to tell him daily.
Nancy
