falling in love

I just read my friend Sarah's blog, and it kind of goes along with something I've been learning/feeling lately. Check it out at http://itsaboutgod.blogspot.com/2006/08/i-want-to-get-married.html
It's about falling in love with God. I realized a couple weeks ago that this is something I have lost the focus on. I'm used to hearing people talking about having a relationship with God and that only God will fulfill you. Even I have been saying things like this to my campers all summer. But it's so easy let those familiar words go in one ear and out the other and to slip into living Christianity as a religion instead of a relationship. Not that I've lost the relationship, but my relationship has been more of a servant/master, sheep/shepherd, or father/daughter relationship at best. I've forgotten about God's amazing gift of an intimate relationship with him. The fact that God made it possible for me to grow closer and closer and closer to him.

I am right now falling in love with an amazing human being, and it is a beautiful thing. How much more beautiful it must be to fall head over heels in love with the Almighty God! That is my goal, my pursuit. God is infinitely greater than anything or anyone on earth. How foolish it would be to love anything or anyone more than the one who created you, cares for you, and died for you even though you've done countless things to hurt him. How foolish to love anyone more than the creator of love and beauty. And how foolish to say that you love someone and never talk to him or get to know him.

I'll write more later, but now I have to go. I have a date with Jesus.