O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt His name together." Psalm 34:3
The unfathomable mystery of God is that God is a Lover who wants to be loved. The one who created us is waiting for our response to the love that gave us our being. God not only says: "You are my Beloved." God also asks: "Do you love Me?" and offers us countless chances to say "Yes"
Thhe spiritual life is a chance to say "Yes" to our inner truth. The spiritual life understood, radically changes everything. Being born and growing up, leaving home and finding a career, being praised and being rejected, walking and resting, praying and playing, becoming ill and being healed, yes, living and dying, they all become expressions of that divine question: "Do you love me?" And at every point of the journey, there is the choice to say "Yes" and the choice to say "No."
For many, love is just a word, a passing phase, a brief emotion; but love that honors Christ our LORD responds to Him with deep devotion.
LORD, I confess that I have not tried as hard as I can to know and love You. But I will try this Lenten season to revive the First Commandment in my life by attendance at church, private devotional moments, and reaching out to others. Amen.