LOVING GOD LANGUAGE
I hear radio spots on Christian radio from the author of books on how peoples’ ‘love languages’ differ, so that one person feels loved when receiving gifts, while another gets the message best by being listened to, or whatever. He seem to have identified 5 varieties. Maybe the 5 can be subdivided and further subdivided, making room for near infinite variety. It brings to mind the commandment to love the Lord Our God with our whole heart, our whole soul, our whole mind, and our whole strength. That’s God’s love language, what we must do so as to feel assured that He knows we love Him. But it’s hard to avoid the impression the more common approach is to love Him with part heart, etc. That’s all busy, modern people can summon up between keeping up appearances, the pace, and with the Jones’s. Do we get part credit, or no credit at all?
Starting with the assumption that one is not loving God wholly, but certainly in part, one wonders what would be required to make the transition to completeness. If worldly things are being given more importance than God, eclipsing Him, so to speak, perhaps what is called for is to see all things as created by God for His own purpose, that is, giving Him glory. One might admire, say, a sunset no less, but with new eyes see it as proclaiming and contributing, in its own way, to God’s glory. Likewise, moon, stars, success, riches, delicious food, and almost anyone or anything. Seems feasible.
