Q Things like sports or politics assume religious tones in the West, with their luminaries held up as moral lights (then pilloried for proving otherwise). Do we invest so much of our hope in such things as a surrogate for spiritual life?
A Yes, yes, many times .. yes.
Q People cherish great love for pets, for instance.
A Yes. Or a mother can love her child excessively, with passion - that is damaging. Not only does it not help the child, it can hurt it, when love is pathologic.
Q Why don't we devote our love to God as we should? Why give it elsewhere?
A Because - what did you say previously, other things have taken the place that God should occupy - those things are easier. Also, they please the emotions, or they please physically. Whereas, doing the will of God many times requires toil on our part, and pain, don't you see..
Q Maybe we think we are not worthy to know God…
A No, that's not it. The point is that our love for God is expressed with our keeping His commandments. And often those commandments seem heavy to us. Whereas, the opposite is easy, it’s not heavy.
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