A good word from Frederick Buechner:
“The final secret, I think, is this: that the words ‘You shall love the Lord your God’ become in the end less a command than a promise. And the promise is that, yes, on the weary feat of faith and the fragile wings of hope, we will come to love [God] at last as from the first [God] has loved us.” [1]
“Less a command than a promise.” Let us pray it will be so.
[1] Frederick Buechner, A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces (San Francisco, Harper Collins, 1984), 45.