True Devotion To God
The Real Devotion
When we speak of devotion it does not mean of praying everyday to the statue or picture of your favorite saints or picture of Jesus itself, it also does not mean a processions, and very important is does not also mean hurting yourself just to clean your sin or have mercy to God. I’m sorry but all that are wrong doings. Devotion means self offering to God but not literal giving your body, it’s just surrendering our self to God and trust him whatever God wants us to be.
Devotion is the warmth of our love for God. The more we receive from God, the more devotion we experience. The more we express our devotion, the more it grows inside. The more devotion, the more it grows inside. The more devotion we have, the more we love God and the more open we are to receive more of God. It is a wonderful circle of loving openness.
What do we mean by devotion? Well, what is a devoted parent? This mother or father loves the child, keeps an eye on the child, cares for the child constantly, enjoys the child, wants the best for him or her, builds a life around the object of devotion is what we mean when we speak of devotion to God.
The devoted disciple loves the Lord and keeps an inner eye attentive to the Lord. The devoted disciple wants what God wants, cares for the people God cares for, designs his or her life around the Lord.
Since devotion has a warm emotional quality, it begs for expression. As we express our devotion to God, it grows. How we express it does not matter so much, but we cooperate with God in our heart when we do express it.
God is likely to take away the negative offerings of emotion and increase the beautiful ones, thus showing us the Lord’s devotion to the disciple. Offering becomes an exchange of inner gifts. Who would not be devoted to such a Lord?
When emotions are regularly offered to God, the next step is offering our thoughts as we are aware of them. With this offering, the fabric of our mental experience will begin to be molded by the loving Lord. Nothing will ever be the same: we will become devotion itself, moment to moment, and we will love God and rejoice in God. “A burning devotion to God discovers renewal and refreshment in him as at the touch of his hand.”
That is the purpose of devotion, which is its own reason for being. In the end, love is for love; devotion is just for devotion. Once tasted, we wouldn’t want for a moment to return to life without devotion and self-offering.