Have you ever been so into someone or something that you didn’t care what others thought? Maybe you were in love and your friends were making fun of you, but you couldn’t care less what they thought? Maybe you were working on a project that consumed all your energy and time including sleep and food?

One sign of being in love with someone or something (such as work) is that we get so lost in that person (or work) that we become unbalanced. That is the nature of love whether right or not. We get preoccupied with the object of our love disregarding all else. This is why alcoholics, drug addicts, workaholics become a danger to themselves because they will not heed others’ advice. They do not care what others think!

But it is right when the object of our love is the worthy subject – namely God. There is no such thing as being unbalanced when it comes to loving God and serving Him. It is impossible to love God too much. We should be completely and recklessly lost in Him to the detriment of our own well-being (although it turns out for our good in the end).

“David, wearing a linen ephod, danced before the Lord with all his might, while he and the entire house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouts and the sound of trumpets.” 2 Sam. 6:15

“David lost his cool.”
“He acted improperly for a king.”
“He embarrassed himself and his country.”
“He should’ve been more self-controlled and self-aware.”

So the people around him thought. But not God.

And David only cared what God thought. That’s what made him great!

Are you so into God that people around you think you are unbalanced and weird? No? You probably don’t love God…

PH