Love and Respect

Loving God

Matt. 22:36-38

“Master, which is the great commandment in the law?”Jesus said unto him, “‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.’ This is the first and great commandment.

We all know we should love God, but what does it really mean to love him? This will run several posts, but the first thing that comes to mind is respect. Respect. Something a lot of people lack now a days, but if you love someone, don’t you have respect for them. Without it, a relationship is doomed to failure. What I find interesting is the great respect the Old Testament prophets had for God. I remember hearing somewhere that they would take a bath every time they wrote God’s name. That is a lot of work, and they didn’t take the presence of God for granted, because whenever God spokes to them, off the shoes came.

I find that respect for God is going down among believers. I mean I know God doesn’t require us to do the thing that the OT people did, but nevertheless I think we take our familiarization with God overboard. God still deserves respect, because as Christians we should love him.