I realize I've often forgotten and misconstrued how a person comes to love God and become a Christian. I think I've been focusing too much on the end goal/result instead of accepting the fact that love is a movement...it's a process...from one place to another. Yeah, ultimately I just really want to see my friends and family in heaven, but to focus solely on that desire is to miss out on the real 'meat' of the process of loving.
Telling a nonbeliever to love God and to devote his life to Him is like telling a guy to love and passionately pursue a girl he's never met. It's just illogical and unnatural to expect people to latch onto something they have never fully experienced or to which they haven't been properly introduced. As a man needs a proper and positive introduction to a woman, so nonbelievers need a proper and positive introduction to the God who died for their souls.
So while my end goal is for a person to love, I need to remind myself that introduction is the first step. I hope I'm able to deliver a proper and positive one to anyone I meet.
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