Are You In Need of Love?

At first answer, many of us will reply "No" I am not in need of love. Most of us are already loved. We have our spouse or person we are dating, we have family, friends and most of us a parish community, so we are probably feeling pretty loved. I know that I have the same kind of people in my life who love me and I am so blessed to have them, but they could all be gone tomorrow. Then what? How will we continue to live? We are social beings and not having people to communicate with would be very difficult. Who will love us?

Let me pose one other question, "If you had a choice between God and everyone else, who would you choose? What I mean is if you choose God, everyone else will abandon you, would you be ok with that? I have reflected on this question and I am not sure yet what my answer is. My hope is that I would choose God. My life is nothing without Him, so even if I did have family, friends and a community how would my life be complete? It just is impossible, my can never be complete without my God.

My point here is that our life needs to be filled with love for God above all else. I believe that many if not all of us know that with our heads, but how many of us feel it in our hearts. We try to be good people and maybe even good Christians. We may be at church every Sunday for Mass, but what about the other 167 hours in our week. How are we loving God? I know that for me, many of the times I end up not loving God. The beautiful and amazing truth is that God never stops loving me, know matter if I choose Him or not.

If our goal is to love God above all else, one of the best ways for us to start down that path is to first let God love us. Many of us are so busy in ministry, or at school or in our jobs, or at home that we fail to remember that God is still there. If we are to let God open up our hearts and just let Him love us, we need to silence our life for a few minutes a day. If our life is supposed to be a life of love, how can we possibly know and practice that love if we don't give God the time to fill our hearts with that love?

Whether it is 5 mins or 50 mins or whatever amount of time you can give to God today, just do it. Just give him that time specifically geared toward you just letting Him love you. Let it not be of time for Thanksgiving, Praise/Worship, or asking God help (although you should have a time for each of those types of prayers everyday), let it just be a time of love between you and the Lover of the World.