IT IS ALL ABOUT LOVE

Why didn’t God just create you to take you to heaven? Have you ever thought about that? Why does he let you spend sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety years here on a broken world where there is sin, suffering, sorrow, sadness, problems, pressures, stress?
LIFE IS ALL ABOUT LEARNING HOW TO LOVE.
In fact, one day Jesus was walking down the street and a guy came up to him and he said, Lord what is the most important command in the Bible. Jesus said, I can summarize the entire Bible for you in two sentences. If you get these two things you get it. You get what life is all about.
It’s called the GREAT COMMANDMENT. We’ve looked at it many times. JESUS SAID, MARK 12:30-31 (LB) “LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND ALL YOUR SOUL, AND ALL YOUR MIND AND ALL YOUR STRENGTH. AND LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF. THERE ARE NO COMMANDS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THESE.”
Learn to love God with all your heart and, by the way, learn to love everybody else. He said if you get those two things, you’ve got it. You understand what I put you on this planet to do. Life is all about learning to love. Everything else is excess. Everything else is secondary. Make love your highest aim. He says I want you first of all to learn to love me – God. Then I want you to learn to love everybody else. Once you’ve done that now you’re ready to come to heaven.
One day you’re going to stand before God and he’s going to say, “Did you learn to love me? That’s why I sent Jesus Christ so you could learn to love me. And did you learn, by the way, to love other people? Because life is all about love.
Love God with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself. That’s what it’s all about.
In fact, the Bible says this,
1 CORINTHIANS 16:14 “EVERYTHING YOU DO MUST BE DONE WITH LOVE.”

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