What a strange truth that we are called to love God. What does that look like?

For a decade or two I thought being “good” equated to loving God. Like that children’s song about the Father up above looking down in love, so be careful.

Be oh, so, careful.

It has been thirty years since I sang that song, and I wonder if I’m ready to move out of the Kindergarten Sunday School room.

So, I asked God a real open-ended question the other day. “How do You want me to love You?”

In time, a response came to my spirit, unexpectedly tidy, with three main points:

– Love me with humility. I don’t need you to be arrogant that you worship “the one true god,” and I don’t need you to know or understand most things about me.

– Love me with loyalty. Not loyalty to the Biblical narrative or to your belief system, but loyalty to our relationship, to me as you know me.

– Remember that I am bigger. You really don’t have to worry or hurry. You don’t have to fear yourself. I am bigger than you and bigger than anything you may fear. It all fits inside my love. Let me be big.

I hear You. I love You.