Practice! Practice! Practice!

When the poet, Maya Angelou, appeared on the “Today Show” a few years ago, she was asked about her lifetime goals. She answered, “I want to become a Christian.” This surprised the show’s host who asked, “But aren’t you already a Christian?” To which the poet replied, “When people come up to me and say they are Christians, I think, ‘Oh my, already?'”

We who call ourselves Christians, we followers of Christ, are on a journey that lasts a lifetime. But we’re on our way! We’re in the process of becoming! We’re following the Lord into ever closer union with God who is Love, but only to the extent that we love one another as Christ loves us.

Our Gracious God calls us into existence because He loves us so much. And He continually calls us into union with Himself: to be with Him, to literally enter into a lifelong love affair with Him. And the more we are able to do this, the more…