“A wise lover values not so much the
gift of the lover as the love of the giver.” ― The Imitation of Christ, By Thomas
à Kempis.
In today’s world people
go to church especially on Sundays to fulfil their obligation and not because
of love. If we are doing everything connected to God because of obligation then
surely we will be more interested in receiving from God everything and when it
comes to loving God we fall away.
Without having love that
is fruit of the Holy Spirit it is not possible for us to love God. We have to
analyze our life and see how many dark areas we have overcome. If we have not
overcome dark areas in our life after being in prayer then we have to
understand that love towards God is not grown in us.
We all can shout at the
top our voice “ I love You Lord ”but when it comes to giving up things that
displeases God we ignore and we think we will give up everything which
displeases God automatically because we are
in prayers. Truth is it will never come to us automatically but we have
to commit ourselves to the Lord and strive to give up.
When we decide with our
own will to live for God on this earth, we will do everything which pleases God
not because it is written in His Word but because we love Him. When we were small
we loved our parents very much and when we loved them we used to obey them in
most of the things in the same way when we love God more than everything we
will do everything which will make Him happy and never to make Him sad.
Let us not love only the things
which are blessed by God in our life but let us love God who is the giver of
all good things. When we love God more than anything we have or anything we are
going to have then surely we will decrease in sin and increase in wisdom of
God, faith, love, forgiveness, hope, justice, discernment, prudence, knowledge,
temperance, fortitude and so on.
Let us make every effort to
love God and be united with Him every day so that we may be benefited greatly
because of His presence in our life.
Date:
25: 10: 2020.
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