The Devoted Fan

What do you love? I don’t mean the way we use the word to express like. For example, “I love spaghetti” or “I love sunsets.” I mean intense affection, adoration, or devotion type of feeling. Many people in Alabama love football. This is a feeling beyond “like” to be deep affection, adoration, and devotion for a college team. Most of the time, this devotion is good fun and recreation. Issues arise when our love for earthly pursuits, compromises our relationship with God. This is not just a problem with college football, but can also be an issue with pursuits, relationships, habits, or focuses. Any thing which becomes our “god” gets in the way of our relationship with God.

               Jesus said the greatest command is that you “must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your being, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.” (Mark 12:30 CEB). This week, I encourage you focus upon your love for God and pray about the barriers which prevent you from loving God fully. We tend to think of idols as Old Testament sculptures, but our world is filled with idols. The idols of our day are more sinister because they are hard to recognize. May God gives us eyes to see and strength to follow, so that we may love the Lord with all our heart, soul, and mind.

May the peace of Christ dwell in you richly,

Rev. Sherri