Love of God/Christ?

[Safia]

How would you describe your love of God? How did you come to love Him? JPII wrote in THEOLOGY OF THE BODY that love isn’t an emotion – it’s a choice, a state of being, a commitment. Does your love rely in any/certain ways on the consolation that arises from prayer? I’m curious about the nature of others’ spirituality in this sense.

 

[Jeanne_S]

My love for God is born out of my gratitude for His unfailing love,mercy and forgiveness.As a “cradle Catholic” I was always aware of God,I felt that I loved Him,always practiced my faith to some degree.However,like so many,when I reached my twenties,God took a back seat to other things,I felt more important.As a result,in my early forties,I sinned against God in a very grievous way.It was after coming to Him with a contrite heart,receiving His forgiveness,did I fully understand,to the best of my human ability,His unwavering love for me. So humbled and grateful I am for that love,and that He has given me the grace to persevere in showing Him my love through daily prayer,being a committed adorer in the Adoration Chapel,living and growing in the beautiful gift of my Catholic faith,that I took for granted for so many years. God is GOOD!

 

[lakotak]

How would you describe your love of God? How did you come to love Him? JPII wrote in THEOLOGY OF THE BODY that love isn’t an emotion – it’s a choice, a state of being, a commitment. Does your love rely in any/certain ways on the consolation that arises from prayer? I’m curious about the nature of others’ spirituality in this sense.

God first brought me to him with feelings and emotions. When my period of those wonderful consolations started to end. I was really frantic. I had problems with “feeling” for years, real problems. I strayed from the Church because of them. Well, long story short. I returned to the Church in 2007 on Palm Sunday. Well, I experienced the most wonderful consolations any person on earth, I think, could experience. However, there was a lesson in them for me. They went on for about a month or so. During that time, I came to realize that I could not live on these feeling to this degree everyday. I had been on a “religious high”. Through this experience, God showed me that to enjoy them once in a while was his gift, but that I couldn’t expect to live with them each day of my life like that. As a result of this, I do not love God because of the consolations I get, I love and follow him because of who he is, not for what he give. It was great lesson that He taught me. As a result, I am happy that I do not now have to depend on feeling or emotions in order to pray or go to daily Mass and worship him.

 

[MikeDunphy]

How would you describe your love of God? How did you come to love Him? JPII wrote in THEOLOGY OF THE BODY that love isn’t an emotion – it’s a choice, a state of being, a commitment. Does your love rely in any/certain ways on the consolation that arises from prayer?

At its best, hopeful. When I look at what God wants us to be: patient, pure, understanding, ready to help, at peace and rejoicing in God’s bounty, then I know that He Himself is entirely good and I approach Him with more confidence and a lighter heart.

But when I get worn-down, and distracted by the world, and irritated, and forgetful of God’s presence, if I haven’t gotten *too *stupid, I try to make do with duty and still follow His way as well as I can manage until some sensible charity and hope return.

The memory of past consolations makes it easier to trust in the benevolence of God.

 

[johnthebaptist1]

My LOVE for God and Jesus, began on my First Communion, when I received Jesus.in the HOLY Eucharist, for than I was overjoyed knowing that Jesus was inside of me.And now that I,am older, I still feel the same way, when I receive my LORD.,As I look at my Communion picture, i,am looking at Jesus, about to give me the the Host of his body and blood,and you can see that I,am looking at Jesus with all my Heart. For my LOVE for GOD and.Jesus his son shall never die.

 

[Wesley1982]

My love is familiarity with Jesus; having an idea of who Jesus is.