Why should I love God?
There’s an interesting discussion going on at the Rapture Ready message boards that started out with an educated atheist asking “Why should I love God?” It’s interesting to me because it’s not from a scientific standpoint. He acknowledges God, but just doesn’t see what God is doing for him. There are many different replies along the lines of “He loves you”, “He sent his son to die for you”, etc. This doesn’t mean anything to someone who doesn’t want to believe and love God though.
I think the answer is that God is doing a lot for him already. God reaches out to all the world by teaching you and me to represent him physically. Casting Crowns has it right, “we are the body”. Chances are, God has helped him all along in his life, he may have even hired him for his current job. Where would we be as the human race without God’s teaching of love and charity? It’s definitely not in our nature. As children, we are completely selfish. I would hate to see a world without God. Anyone that couldn’t make it on their own would die. Anyone that had more than someone else would be robbed or killed. God is doing a lot for him and everyone else through us. It’s a great responsibility to represent God on this Earth. Do you make God glad that he is being represented by you?
