Being in love with God

So, as some of you may know, Christian Rock is the genre of music that most often plays in my car. I lost my ipod some time ago, so I started listening to the radio. I got sick of stations that played the top 40 over and over and over again, so I'd find myself changing it to a station where I didn't know any of the songs. Then I found this gem of a station...K-Love 95.3. Since I discovered it, it's been on in my car 24/7. I really do love it. It's a christian rock station, and I've learned that christian rock is great.

.....but in some songs they talk about God like they're in love with Him. And it's way weird to me. I have always been kind of weirded out by that. Right? Like it's kind of weird, you're not supposed to be in love with Him.

Then I started reading this book called Blue Like Jazz, by Donald Miller (recommended by my good friend Heath). It's a nonreligious book about christian spirituality. And last night I was reading it and there was a paragraph that kind of shed some light on the "being in love with God" idea. Here it is:

"Our 'behavior' will not be changed long with self-discipline, but fall in love and a human will accomplish what he never thought possible. That laziest of men will swim the English channel to win his woman. I think what Rick said is worth repeating that by accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey."

So, I still don't think we should be in love with God. But I think what this concept is saying is that being in love gives us motivation like nothing else can. When we have a love like that for God, our obedience and desire to be righteous is sustained much longer and we will passionately obey Him.