question about god?

My son has cancer, and in trying to deal with this, a very wise man once told me that what you consider your children are not really yours but God's. Raise your children as though they were truly "born" to Him. You will receive favor in his sight if you do this. Keep in mind that everyone struggles with this as it is very easy to love the tangible and very hard to love what is intangible. Keep God in your daily life!!

I don't have children yet, but I do teach them. Through my job, God has revealed to me alot of himself and his love for me. This is the way I think about it. As I began to work with children, I began to really love them. No matter how bad some of them might be, I loved them unconditionally, and particularly with preschoolers, I had to care for them almost as a mother would. Anyway, if I felt that much love for children, I can only imagine how you must feel about your own. But the thing God made me realize was that if you could take the love you have for your child(ren) and multiply that times infinity, it would not be anywhere near as strong as the feelings of love God has for you. God is our father and we are his children. So God loves you like you love your children. The only difference is He is God, so even if you are a perfect mother, God and his love is infinate.

I would say don't worry and try to say, "I have to love God this much." Instead just focus on getting to know God more. He certainly won't ask you to love your children any less (In fact, it's usually the opposite in that the more we love God the more we will love others). But as you get to know him your love for him will grow and develop naturally. Also remember God will never condemn you for anything. He is love and everything about him is good. So never feel condemned for how much you love your children or anyone else.

First off the love you have for God is different from the love you have for your children. The love you have for your children is like the love God has for you. Two different types two different levels.

Hinduism teaches that you should see God in everyone and everything. That a mother who loves her children and does her duty as a mother and is a good mother to her children honors God because God is in her children and by loving her children she loves God, by doing her duty as a mother to her children, she honors God, by being a good mother to her children, she is righteous in God's eyes. For a Hindu everything should be done as sacred, for God. A person takes on the role of a mother for God. The spark of the Divine dwells in you and in your children. By loving your children, you are loving God.

You should love your children the most of all as God intended.

In my case you are talking about two types of love.

The love I experience fo rmy children is unending and unequaled in terms of human emotion. While my love for GOD is a gift I recieved from him as a result of accepting Christ and recieving the Holy Spirit as my guiding force. I love a have for him is expressed more though my gratitude for his grace and his wisdom. It is something far beyond my human emotional responses, although I cannot explain it in worldy terms I certainly feel it in a sort of binding of spirit.

I was once told true love was the unselfish concern for others. This applies well in terms of the love for my children.

I reverse that same sentence with repect of my love of GOD, he has shown his unselfish love for me and by this rgace I am blessed with the ability to return that love with the acceptence that his will be done, not mine.

In short, by turning my life over to him as my guiding spirit I feel that is the closest thing to true love I can achieve in this imperfect form here on earth.

Therefore the spirtual love in for GOD is superior to that of the love I have for my children only because my spiritual essence from him is true love and that of my children is a physical love.

I hope that wasn't to confusing.......

God Bless,

Roger

How is "loving" your children separate from "loving" your god?

Perhaps the best way you express love to your god is to find out what "love" is and do it.

It is through your love of your children that you are also expressing love for their Creator.