Jesus told us the two most important commandments in the Bible have to do with loving God and loving others. Psalm 37:4-6 tells us "Delight yourself in the Lord; And He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; Trust also in HIm, and He will do it, And He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, And your judgment as the noonday." A friend pointed out these verses to me one day in college. I was struggling to understand how God speaks to us. One way, the friend said, was to understand what our role is and what role God has. Our role is to love God, to fellowship with Him, to walk with Him and to obey His Word. God's role is to guide and direct as He desires. We need to concentrate then on our own job and leave the rest to God.
This is the nature of the faith that we follow Paul told us in 1 Corinthians 13. It is about love and forgiveness and a God who is love. Psalm 136 repeats this phrase time and again, "For His lovingkindness is everlasting." I have wondered sometimes why it is repeated 26 times in this chapter. Maybe it is because we need to hear it. Maybe it is because we sometimes act and think as though God's love is like ours, that it is fickle and at times weak. But, thank God that He isn't like that. God's love is eternal. Is it any wonder then that the prayer that God will always honor is: God help me to love others more. God is interested in us reflecting Him.
