I had the awesome opportunity to connect with some friends and fellow believers last night for a great worship time. We are exploring some ideas for worship and serving in our local community. This experience reminded me once again of the importance of our connection with God.

Without constant communication and worship with God, there is no way to have a vibrant ongoing relationship with the Creator of the Universe. Think about it… If you had a friend that you were with every single day for four years. Constantly doing everything together, you would have a tight bond with that person. But then, you are forced to go different ways and now you are lucky to see them once or twice a year. What happens to that relationship?

You begin to lose that bond, that closeness that you had before. The same is true with God. In the crazy busyness of 21st century life, we can get so caught up in what we think NEEDS to be done that we can lose our focus not just on our earthy relationships but also and more tragically, on our relationship with our heavenly father.

I challenge you for the next 30 days make a conscience effort to reconnect with the God who loves you and has not stopped pursuing you with all his heart. James 4:8 promises… Come near to God and God will come near to you.

Respond today to God’s pursuit of you and your love!

Spiritual Hunger: “God reveals Himself the most to those who want to know Him the most.”

(Via The Batterson Blog – Thoughts on Life and Leadership.)

One of the things that God has really focused my heart toward is learning to love like God does. So today I want to begin a series of posts that first look at defining what love looks like from God’s perspective.

Then I would love to explore what it looks like for us to practically live that out day to day in the 21st century. What’d ya say? Will you join me on this journey to explore love and what the Bible says it is or is not?

First it would be good to define love. For this I dove into a recently acquired copy of the Zondervan Bible Dictionary. Here is a summary of what it said:

Love is the very nature of God – 1 Jn 4:8,16

It is essential to man’s relationship with God – Matt. 22:37-40

All the Law and the Prophets hang on love – Matt 22:40, Rom 13:8-10

In this superior attribute all other attributes are harmonized

Jesus Christ is the unique object of this eternal love – Isa. 42:1, Matt. 3:17, 17:5, Jn 17:5

Love is created in the believer by the Holy Spirit – Rom. 5:5, Gal. 5:22

Love is the chief test of true Christian discipleship – Luke 14:26, Jn 13:35, 1 Jn 3:14