Whom do you love?

It’s been said before, “To know him is to love him.”

In a worldly sense, we can’t help being endeared to someone who is loving and not a threat to our well-being. Some folks are easily lovable, and others take time to warm up to. In either case, as children of God, we are to love them all the same. It’s easy to love someone who loves you, but God says to love even the unlovable.

As for our God, it is amazing to know that he loved us well before we loved him. The question we ask is:  How do we love something so ethereal? Something we haven’t physically seen…or know?

The best place to start getting to know someone is by talking to them, spending time in their world, and finding out what makes them tick. It’s the same for God. His message to mankind—his love letter to us—is all found in the Bible. Along with prayerful meditation and conversing with him daily, reading about his story is how we grow close to him.

Becoming familiar with his word, the more we will be acquainted with his marvelous truth. When we become surrendered to him, the more we will grow to love him and allow his Holy Spirit to love others through us.

May the new year bring us into a deeper relationship with our Savior, so that we can grow even closer to him with our entire heart, mind, and soul as we love our neighbor as ourselves.