Love for God can feel easier than love for people.
God does not interrupt, misunderstand, forget, or hold opinions that test my patience.
People make spiritual love practical.
I remember a family member telling a story I had heard many times before. I felt myself stop listening and quietly reduce the person to the repetition.
Loving God’s Son did not require pretending every detail was new. It meant remembering that the person speaking was not an inconvenience to move past.
I listened for what the story carried this time—the part they lingered over, the feeling beneath the familiar words—and responded to the person rather than my impatience.
Love did not make the repetition fascinating. It made contempt unnecessary.
If I love God, that love must eventually include what He created—even when the form is ordinary, inconvenient, or difficult to understand.
Today I want to notice where devotion becomes separated from the person in front of me.
Sometimes it will look like patience.
Sometimes it will look like a clear refusal that does not make either person wrong.
Love for God is not proved through spiritual feeling.
It becomes visible in the purpose I bring to an ordinary encounter.
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