Love of God

Love of God and love of neighbour are connected; they do not exist separately. Nevertheless, they are different. Even the rate seems different. We are to love God, above all, and our neighbor as ourselves. However, to love God truly, above all, the virtue of love must grow and reach various degrees of perfection.

This development has two boundaries: habitual and current love for God. Slovak imitation of these Latin scholastic words would sound unsuccessful; therefore, we prefer to keep them in their original wording. Even though he does not think of God, he loves God and does not fundamentally oppose God’s love; he commits no great sins. Thus, the little ones live in God’s love; after baptism, a lot of adult life takes place for Christians. Currently, God, who loves God, is still being decided for him; he is still dealing with it. It is completely and perfectly possible only in heaven. Here on earth, man’s perfection lies between the two boundaries, depending on how it is given and how it seeks to do so. Habitual love for God, as theologians say, is enough for salvation. In this is the hope of all good people, who seldom think of God and do no greater evil.  They may have misconceptions about it. Their thinking and their actions are not fully in compliance. To make us better internally united, the liturgy encourages us daily by calling:

“More hearts!” We already have as much mind as possible to dwell with the one we all meet in eternity. However, this idea cannot be clear in daily work, God’s love and human love and certain. We cannot think of two things at once. For that, the saints sought to transform in them the love of God into a kind of constant unquenchable feeling, a sort of dominance in harmony with the complex psychological structure of our consciousness and subconscious. It is not easy to analyse properties of this “feeling” of constant love for God. However, Scaramelli advises strengthening, in particular, its three elements:

1. love in God (amor complacentiae), 2. Benevolence to all that is God’s (amour benevolentiae), 3. God’s right of priority in dealing with the questions of life (amorpraeferentiae).

The feeling of love grows together with the feeling of cohesion and belonging. Every mother is happy when a child praises her. A son’s success is also her success, for they belong together. The history of the Old Testament is a beautiful example of God’s love. The glory of the LORD was the same as victory and the strength of the Jewish army. How often are you here? There is a cry, “The Lord our God!” They felt God as something that was really their own. This thought should also permeate our lives so that we may begin to enjoy all the successes of God’s kingdom and all our failures to ache as if they were our personal joy or sorrow. Congratulations to a friend are manifested by the fact that we are still willing to do anything for him. We usually express this commitment to him with the following words: “Just call if you need something, and I’ll leave everything else.” “God, in the true sense of the word, needs nothing from us. The only one to which this attitude can be applied is «external glory, God». By this word, we mean everything that leads to the full realisation of God’s kingdom on earth. Onto God sends people. He who loves him answers God’s simple command in the words of Isaiah: Behold, I am here; send me! (Is 6.8).

THAT LIFE IS THE LIGHT OF PEOPLE 

For those who are not true saints, it seems an impossible challenge to love God more than anything. others. With subtle irony, the folk song reflects this objection in its words: “If I loved God so much, as I love you, I would be holy as angels long ago from heaven.” A strict preacher of morals will necessarily label this amorous sigh as blasphemy (blasphemy). And yet life is different, in a worse but better way. Emotionally, most people love anything apart from God with enthusiasm. Fortunately, even those who are, as they say, up to their ears in love have not all lost their heads and can still prioritise God’s law over their feelings. This affection is a ‘love’ for something else. For example, public transport has priority on the main road over an oncoming vehicle. Figuratively speaking, God is still coming to our lives from the right; his laws are moving in the main ways. So they still take precedence over everyone else’s interests, even if we are enthusiastically hurried elsewhere. The more the driver gets the sense of priority on the road into their blood, the safer they ride. And on the road, life is safe when we respect the priority of God’s interests.