Loving God

We went to Bonita's moms church this morning, the pastor preached from Deut 6...about loving God with all your heart, soul, and strength. It was a good message. How does this love show itself? When someone or something is your greatest treasure...your greatest desire...then this manifests itself in your whole life...how you speak, what you make priorities, what your shape your life around. God commands us to teach our children about Him...from the time we wake up...until the time we go to bed.

We hear this and think... "man that is pretty fanatical"...

When we think this we reveal our true hearts condition....

...its impossible to point our children to Jesus in all of life...in all of creation...when we don't think or see Jesus there to begin with.

How can we make Jesus our children's all consuming passion...when He isn't our all consuming passion?

Real answer-- We can't.

Our answer-- Let's get ourselves a really cool, hip, energetic youth pastor...we can then push all of our responsibility upon him...even though he isn't with our children from the time they wake up until the time they go to bed...oh well...its better then nothing...and its also better then the alternative...

...the alternative being that we as parents need to change our lives...re-prioritize our lists of what is important in life and what isn't.

There is nothing wrong with churches having youth pastors to help parents...but it is wrong for churches to hire youth pastors TO REPLACE parents who have abdicated their God given responsibilities.

We can't tell our kids to love God...we must show them.