Revelation 4:1-8

Revelation 4:1-8
English Standard Version (ESV) 

  When John was an old man, he was granted a vision  of heaven that overwhelms the senses.  He was grasping for ways to describe it, but it clearly exists beyond what our minds can grasp.  What translates, however, is the sense of awe and wonder one gets from the throne room of God.  The only response is to worship the God who sits upon the throne and rules with mercy and power.  It's a transforming place, one words fail to describe.
  To aim our lives at the presence of God, we can't rely upon rules to guide our lives.  I once listened to a preacher describe a situation he encountered in Australia.  There, they don't have fences for the cattle -- instead, they dig deep wells, and it turns out that creating life-giving wells in the middle of the Outback is enough to keep the cattle near, and it's far more effective than creating boundary fences.  The wells keep them close.
  To follow God, the most important thing we can do is to seek to love God more than anything else.  I've been praying for this -- for the Holy Spirit to teach my heart to love God above all, that my love for God may lead my heart, and then my heart may lead my actions to honor and glorify God.  If we love God, we will seek to honor him with our choices and with our words and with our actions.  We shape our lives around what we love, and so loving God will shape how we interact and how we choose to spend our time.  God has poured out his love on us, so let us choose to love God in return for all that God has done, and may this love be the guiding light for our lives.