Why a Love Relationship with God?

In today’s bible study, I learnt that a love relationship with God is the key to experiencing Him in your life.

In Mark 12:30, Jesus said that the greatest commandment of all is to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart & with all your soul & with all your mind & with all your strength.”

Simply put, to experience a Christian life, it is important to experience Christ, i.e. experience God. Without having this experience & living in this experience, how can we consider ourselves living as a Christian? How can a person be a Christian without Christ?

Taking the first step of faith towards salvation is also the first step in becoming a Christian. Further steps are necessary to become a growing & mature Christian. And this comes in the form of developing a love relationship with God.

Relationships can come in many kinds. It can be a brotherly relationship, a romance relationship, a parent-child relationship, or even a selfish-seeking relationship that seeks to get, more than give to others.

But the Bible tells us that we are to pursue a love relationship with God. From my view point, this love relationship isn’t developed based on your personal self-seeking demands & wants in your life. Neither is it based on everyday grumblings & unhappiness about people, things or happenings.

To pursue a relationship means that we have to start loving God. How to love God? The answer is by obeying His commands. John 14:21 states, “Whoever has My commands & obeys them, he is the one who loves Me. He who loves Me will be loved by My Father, & I too will love him & show Myself to him.”

Yes, it is not easy to love… as it is, many people are already having so much problems trying to love their siblings, parents, girlfriend / boyfriend, spouse, church members, colleagues, bosses, criminals & country politicians… how more difficult would it be to seek to love God?

But it is still essential to continually seek a love relationship with God. Just like many out there, I too struggle with obeying God’s commands & seeking to love Him. But struggling doesn’t mean that it’s not going to work out. Not trying means it’s not going to work out.

And I believe that if we truly & honestly tell God our struggles & pray that He help us develop such a relationship with Him… Our Heavenly Father is listening… & He will definitely guide us along this path with Him. We just need to keep our eyes on Him… hold onto the faith (whatever amount) that we have… & keep praying… & God WILL answer. And when we look back, we will see the path that He has laid for us all these while…