Would I Love God?

Would I love God if He did not love me?
Yet knowing He does, do I love God much now?
It’s not His fault, but my inadequacy,
I don’t much choose such love to now allow.

Is it because there’s one I love much more?
Do I make of myself a god instead?
Next to exciting me, is God a bore?
Is He inside my heart, if not my head?

Before I serve and love, I first must know,
I blind myself from seeing His love clear,
for knowing Him, I’ll see He loves me so,
then He’d depose me, is that what I fear?

If You’d not love me, Lord, why then obey?
That’s hard enough with all Your love today.

                           by Pete Voelz     7/6/14