I had an interesting question posed to me to the other day.

“Ms. Susan, is it possible to be “in love” with God? Shouldn’t you just say you love God? I mean, isn’t being “in love” with someone reserved for your spouse?”

I’ve never thought about this question quite like this. Here’s how I responded:

• We are to model our relationship with our spouse on that of our relationship with God.
  • Ephesians 5:22-33 takes us through how we are to mirror our marriage on the example Christ gave for us. 
• I’m “in love” with my spouse. This means I want to be with him all the time (well, on most days!).
• This is the same for God. We should want to be with Him all the time. We want His presence to impact us each and every day.
• Being “in love” means it’s a continual desire to build upon that relationship.

Then, to drive it home and to use something I love dearly…

Imagine you love pizza. You would want pizza several times a week. Now, imagine you were “in love” with pizza. That would be all you would want for all your meals.

God is to be our pizza. We need to “want” Him for all our meals. All our food should come from Him.

Hebrews 5:12-14 says, “You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things about God’s word. You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food. For someone who lives on milk is still an infant and doesn’t know how to do what is right. Solid food is for those who are mature, who through training have the skill to recognize the difference between right and wrong.” (NLT)

What kind of food do you eat? Milk or pizza?

© 2014 Susan M. Sims

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