It's A Love Thing!

1John 4:8 "He that loveth not knoweth not God;for God is love".

As John tells us, God is love.Love sums up God's character,His motivation,how He lives and how He deals with us.He wants us to show love in all our dealings with others reguardless of how they act. According to scripture God expects us to respond to everyone with kindness and gentleness.The godly way of  life begins in our attitude towards others.In every area of life we should treat others with love, kindness,and respect.Respecting, honoring and loving God the Father and His son Jesus the Christ is an essential aspect of our living the way of life God wants us to live.

Yet many professing Christians try to conduct their relationship with God one sided.They expect God to respond with love and respect of their feelings and needs,but they see no need to respond to God with the same honor and respect(as we do to the least of these we do to God).They disreguard His word, spurn His teaching and ignore His commands.They fail to comprehend the mutual obligations that must be present in the relationship God expects us to have with him and with the converted spiritual family He is creating.

Our relationship with God can be compared with a growing family relationship between a father and his children or to an endearing relationship between a husband and his wife.Proper nourishment of this special relationship must involve love,respect, honor,action and effort.Like any relationship, its success also requires a major investment of time.Good communication is also essential to a good relationship, and is needed in our relatioship with God.God speaks to us through His Word, the Holy Scriptures,and we talk to Him through prayer.These communications between God and us should not become a one-way-streets,with us always begging but never listening to His advice or instruction for our life.They must  together become a two way,interactive communication pathway.Prayer must become a regular habit along with searching the scripture to consistently maintain contact with God.This could be compared to two young people in love,conversating often and openly with each other,attentive to every word the other says.God wants us to show our love to him with the same enthusiasm and eagarness to conversate with Him.