Relationship: More than words

Today I was just thinking about our relationship with God and how, at times, it can be very shallow. When I think about my relationship with God I tend to relate it to human relationships because this is all I have to go by when asking myself..."What does a relationship with God look like, or how can I deepen my relationship with God?" The latter question is what I desire. Although I do communicate with God and am getting better at being honest with him about myself (which is a funny thing to think about, how we try to hide our inner thoughts from God and not express to him in prayer what we are really thinking even though he knows our thoughts!) I find that sometimes my life and actions do not line up with my words. This is the acid test of how much I truly love and honor him. Since I value my relationship with God, I try to find ways that I can demonstrate it. I am finding that a deeper relationship with God consist of just more than communicating with him. We can also deepen our relationship with Him by how we live our lives, the choices that we make and the attitude of our hearts towards Him. We can honor our relationship with him by our actions, how we truly live day by day. I know this is nothing new, but rather an old and well known teaching by Christ himself. But if we are honest with ourselves and each other, at times this proves to be a challenge. Let us seek to deepen our relationship with Christ by moving beyond just communicating with Him to honoring and loving Him by the way we live and the choices we make daily. I believe the key to this making the daily choice to humble ourselves, dethroning ourselves, our selfish will and desires, so that God would be honored and glorified. In this way we can move into a deeper relationship with God where we actually walk and live with him instead of just talking with him occasionally.