Infuse Your Life with God

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down, and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

- Deuteronomy 6:5-9

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength… we hear these words all the time. Jesus tells us on multiple accounts that this is the greatest commandment; but what does this even mean?

I think often of something my mom wrote in a sermon decades ago:

“Believing in God is not just going to Sunday school, or Bible Class, but it is living with God every minute of the day and having the kind of faith that comes from a first-hand experience with God.”

Faith is not just about going to church on Sundays; it's how we engage with God every day. That’s what the author of Deuteronomy is trying to express. Talk about God around the dinner table, or while having a cup of coffee with a friend. Pray while you're walking, or driving. Worship in the shower, and when you're at work.

Infuse God’s commandments into every aspect of your being; like a teabag in a cup of hot water, they should color and flavor your whole life.

A few years ago, I realized: if I believe God is in me and in every person, then every conversation I have is a prayer.

How would your life change if you intentionally brought God into every minute of the day, if every moment of your day is a prayer, and an opportunity to engage with God?

Would it change how you talk to others?
Would it change how you talk to yourself?
Would it change how you look in the mirror?

This week, make a practice of being like that hot cup of water, and allow God to infuse your life with color and flavor; notice how it changes you, how it makes life a little more delicious.