Let Me Count the Ways

Psalms 116:1 (KJV) I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.

(Proverbs 1 also read)

We say it in such a cavalier way.  We say it without thinking.  It becomes a mantra, “I love you.”  So easy to say and so rarely do we stop and really think about what it means.  As I was looking at this, and, nodding my head in agreement, I began to ask myself, “Why do I love the Lord?”

Natural, not something we think about.  As often happens, my mind went to my grandchildren.  I love my grandchildren with a passion that I don’t even understand.  Why?  Obviously, they are superior to anybody else’s grandchildren.  You might argue with me on that but I know you are just deluded.  Much of it comes down to the blood relationship.  They are family.

In the same way I think it’s impossible for people who have not become a part of the family of God to really love Him.  They don’t know Him. Their spiritual DNA has not been modified in regeneration.

So?  I could list all the things like you see in this Psalm.  I could wax political.  Anyway you slice it, though, it comes down to the fact that I love the lord.  I can live with that.