Meditations

TRUE LOVE FOR GOD Whom have I had in heaven but thee? And there is nothing upon earth that I desire besides thee. Psalm 73, 25. When we tell God we love Him with all our heart, often we are just using words, making a speech that has no reality. From our childhood on, many of us have been taught to speak in such a way, and so we continue to do so when we have grown up, often without knowing what we are saying. But to love God means we have no will other than His. It means faithfully to observe His holy law. It means to have a horror of sin. To love God means to love what Jesus loved, poverty, humiliation, suffering. It means to hate what Jesus hated, the world, our pride, our passions. Could we think we love someone we would not want to be like? To love God means to willingly have fellowship with Him. It means to want to go to Him in prayer. It means to sigh after and long for Him. How false is a love that takes no pains to go and see one it loves!