How many of us say to God on Sundays that we love Him? I'm sure all of us do. We sing it, we pray it, we believe it. And you know, those words are not said in vain. Whenever God hears them, He is very happy. He is very touched. Because He loves us so very much. If a person you love says to you that he or she loves you, you would feel elated no matter what. God is very happy when we tell Him that we love Him.

And yet for the next six days of the week, we fail to love Him, both in word and in deed. Our attention, our heart, is on other things, not Him. We deem other things more worthy of our attention, our time, than Him. Can you imagine the pain that God must feel? That after the joy of hearing us tell Him we love Him on Sundays, to see us totally turn away the very next day, the very next moment? Behaving as if we never knew Him, never loved Him? It is painful to have someone ignore you; it is doubly painful to have someone who has told you he or she loves you, ignore you. And God loves us far, far more than we can ever love each other. Can you just imagine how hurt He must feel? God is not some high and mighty Being who cares nothing for our existence, or sits there waiting to judge us. God is a real Person who loves us so much and desperately wants to be part of our lives. And still we turn away.

Jesus experienced it while He was here on Earth; I believe He still experiences it up in heaven. Sad, isn't it? God forgive us unworthy sinners!