Is loving God a waste of time? Certainly that’s the opinion of the atheist person who posted this graphic on the internet. And there are occasions when that person is dead-on right.
If loving God makes no difference in your life, then it’s a waste of time.
If loving God doesn’t cause you to love your friends and family more, then it’s a waste of time.
If loving God doesn’t encourage you to love yourself, then it’s a waste of time.
If loving God doesn’t make you want to do more for a world that’s clearly sick and broken, then it’s a waste of time.
Serious followers of Jesus of Nazareth (and I’m one of them) know that despite this world’s horrible problems, God still loves it. In fact, God sent Jesus — who many people believe is His Son — to this world to help fix it.
I can hear some of you saying “How did sending Jesus making one bit of difference? This world is still a mess.” Yes, this world is still a mess. And sometimes, deeply misguided followers of Jesus have contributed to that mess.
That said, consider this: serious Jesus followers believe He died to wipe away ALL the wrongdoings of people who believe in Him. And by rising from the dead, as the original source documents of Jesus’ life describe, He also wiped away the permanence of death.
How does this make any difference? It’s already made a HUGE difference. Energized by what Jesus has done for them, serious Jesus followers have gone on to build hospitals, start universities and do charity work in some of the world’s most hopeless places. That includes treating victims of the Ebola virus in Africa, helping typhoon survivors in the Philippines and building shelters for earthquake victims in Haiti.
All of this happens because people who follow Jesus know that God loves them (and every other person on this planet) beyond all measure. Allowing His divine Son to die on a Roman cross, then bringing Him back to life, is absolute proof of that love.
- Because I love God, I love my wife and stepchildren MORE.
- Because I love God, I care about what’s happening in HIS world.
- Because I love God, I turned away from my insecure greediness and make regular contributions to charities that do amazing work in the name of Jesus.
- Because I love God, I maintain this website to tell YOU about how loving God and His Son can change your life just as it changed (and continues to change) my life.
Do you see value in loving God and accepting His gift of Jesus? Yes or no, post your thoughts below and let’s have a conversation.
Frank's Cottage 
When God is front and center in one’s life, you can’t help but love others more than ever. Great post, Frank! Blessings!
We all look through the telescope. Question is, are we looking through it to find what we want? To confirm our self-justifications? Or to seek truth?
I’ve looked through the telescope both ways and found that Jesus Christ is the lens through which we all need to find the Truth. Amazingly, Christ is both the lens (the Way) and the Truth by whom we find Life (Himself).
The rest of existence is merely intended to point us to Jesus, and wherever it is corrupted and bent, He remains unlimited and still uses it to show us Himself for our sake. That is both true power and true love in action.
His death is evidence of his love for us (read the Bible), and his resurrection is evidence of his unlimited power. Love cannot be separated from the Lord Christ, who is God Himself. We can only hope to love anyone, truly even ourselves, if love, through the grace of God, is not already given to us through Christ Jesus.