Grace in salvation training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions...SOUNDS GOOD TO ME! I really think that is the hardest part of asking 'what would Jesus do?' There is SO MUCH around us to distract us and I am easily distracted. It really isn't a question of loving God or my desire to love others from loving God a lot of the time. It simply is that I don't think about it or if I do I think about it after thinking about what I want to do. Me first, God second, others fifty fifth. A verse from Colossians 3 always haunts me when I am wrestling with these types of questions. I was challenged in college to memorize the book of Colossians and for some reason chapter 3 sticks out in my mind and it might be just for this verse "when Christ who is your life is revealed then you will also be revealed with Him in glory." v. 4 If this verse is true, and I believe the Word to be true all the time, then the order of priorities in life should go something like this: God is my life and everything else gets the spill over from that reality. You've heard me say this a million times and this is one of the foundational ideas behind it. Loving God and loving others comes from Him being our lives at the very core. In fact, saying loving God and loving others almost makes it sounds like the two are equal and really they aren't. Jesus says the second is "like it" not the same as it. Loving God is the foundation for loving others as we all know. Loving others is never the foundation for loving God it is the fruit of loving God and more importantly of GOD LOVING US!
Sorry for the random thoughts today. Hope it makes a little sense. LGLO, Pastor Peter
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