"Learning to Love Him More"...What does it mean?

  Why did I choose the title to my blog and what does it mean? Well, last month, the youth choir at our church that I'm in sang the song "To Love Our God" by Mark Hayes. This is, and has been, one of my favorite songs ever! The message is so clear, and so powerful! It talks about how we are only on this earth to love God, and that should be our reason to live.
 
A few weeks ago, I started to think about what life is really for. What do we live for, and why do we live? I knew that our sole purpose on earth should be to live for God and to prepare for our eternity with Him, but I kept questioning how to do it.

  I've been thinking about this pretty constantly since then, and praying about it. That song that we sang in choir kept coming to my mind. Yea I knew that we were supposed to live for God and everything, but I was wondering how I was supposed to do that in my daily life, which consists pretty much of school. What does
God want from me?

  I definitely don't have the full answer yet, but I'm starting to get little pieces of it. To start with, my daily devotions. Do I do them out of duty, or do I do them because I want to spend time with the One who laid down His life for me and paid the ultimate price? Do I get up early to read my Bible just to get it over with so that I can have time to do things that I want to do during the day, or do I get up early because I want God's voice to be the first thing I hear in the morning?

  The second way to love God is to do my best in my school work. If you know me at all, you will know that I am NOT very fond of school! I'm in my junior year of high school and let me tell you, I cannot WAIT to graduate next spring! But doing my very best in school is one way where I can give my best. I need to give my best for God in everything...and everything includes school doesn't it? As much as I dislike it, I need to learn to give my best.

  The third way is for me to love my family...unconditionally. My family is wonderful, they really are, but no family is perfect. Me being imperfect doesn't help either. It's hard to love people you live with every day. God commands us to love our families. He says that if we can't love our brothers who we can see, how can we love God who we can't? (1 John 4:20) I have 6 sisters. Four of my sisters don't live at home anymore, but no matter what, there are still those cat fights!

  I could name several more ways in which God is teaching me to love Him more, but I'll save that for future blog posts. ;)