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Some people show love to friends and family by spending time with them. Some people feel most loved when someone gives them a hug. Some people buy gifts or make something by hand. God doesn’t need our gifts, and we can’t hug him, so how do we show him we love him?
We can spend time with him, we can talk to him through prayer and worship, and we can obey him. But none of these things make God love us more. We can’t earn his love. But it is a gift we give to him because we love him.
When the land of Israel experienced a three-year famine, David prayed to God and asked what he could do to help the people. God told him that King Saul had disobeyed God. God had made a covenant with the Gibeonites (Joshua 9), promising that the people of Israel would not attack them. Saul broke this promise. God demanded that David, as his representative, make it right. When David obeyed, the famine ended.
This passage shows us what happened—but it’s not a command for us to follow. God doesn’t want us to offer sacrifices. So back to the original question: how do we show God we love him? Micah 6:8 sums it up: do what is right, love mercy, and walk humbly with God (NLT). What’s one way you can live that out today?
Pray: God, I am saved from my sin because of Jesus’s sacrifice for my sake. The things I do can never make you love me more than you already do. Help me to live in such a way that I reflect you to those around me. Amen.