Expensive Love

Much is said of love that costs you something, but there is one love that will probably cost you more than anything else, and that is a love for God. The Bible says if you love God you will obey His commandments, and any of you who has chased purity and perfection will know just how tall a command that is. It's easy to talk about a oozy-floozy kind of feel-good love, but a love that determinedly obeys in the fiercest circumstances is a deeper measure of your bond to God. It comes as no surprise that the first of the ten commandments is to love God. Everything spins off it, because to love God is to obey, is to do what's right, is to love your neighbour, is to obey all the other commandments. In fact to love God is the biggest challenge you'll ever face. Period.