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MATTHEW 22:37-38 (NIV) “LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD… THIS IS THE FIRST AND GREATEST COMMANDMENT.” God says if you don’t get anything else here’s what you’re supposed to do in life. You’re supposed to learn to love Me back because I made you to love you and I know you and I want you to know and love Me back. There’s a word for this. It’s the word “worship.” Worship is knowing and loving God back.
MARK 12:30 (NCV) “LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND ALL YOUR SOUL, ALL YOUR MIND AND ALL YOUR STRENGTH.”
God wants me to love Him three ways:
First, God wants me to love Him PASSIONATELY. He says “With all your heart and with all your soul.” I want you to love Me passionately. Because He passionately loves you.
Second, God wants me to love Him THOUGHTFULLY. It says “love Him with your mind.” In other words, He wants you to think through.
Third, God wants me to love Him PRACTICALLY. “Love Me with all your strength.” Your abilities.
The truth is that even though God created the entire world in the universe and He created you, there are three things God does not have unless you give them to Him. He doesn’t have your AFFECTION unless you give it to Him. That’s loving God with your heart and your soul. He doesn’t have your ATTENTION unless you give it to Him. That’s loving God with your mind. And God doesn’t have your ABILITY unless you give it to Him. That’s loving God with your strength.
The greatest way to express affection to God is by giving your life to Him, by yielding yourself to Him. YOU CAN GIVE WITHOUT LOVING. BUT YOU CANNOT LOVE WITHOUT GIVING. You have to give. ROMANS 6:13 (NLT) “GIVE YOURSELF COMPLETELY TO GOD SINCE YOU’VE BEEN GIVEN NEW LIFE.”
The most important thing you can know in life is that God loves you. And the most important thing you can do in life is love Him back. So when you get up every morning before you get out of bed sit on the edge of your bed and say something like this, I want to know You a little bit better and I want to love You a little bit more.” If you do that, at the end of your day no matter how bad the day has gone, that day was a success.
I challenge you to make as the number one goal of your life before everything else getting to know and love God because that brings Him pleasure. Make as your goal what Paul said. 2 COR 5:9 (NIV) “SO WE MAKE IT OUR GOAL TO PLEASE HIM.”
MARK 12:30 (NCV) “LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND ALL YOUR SOUL, ALL YOUR MIND AND ALL YOUR STRENGTH.”
God wants me to love Him three ways:
First, God wants me to love Him PASSIONATELY. He says “With all your heart and with all your soul.” I want you to love Me passionately. Because He passionately loves you.
Second, God wants me to love Him THOUGHTFULLY. It says “love Him with your mind.” In other words, He wants you to think through.
Third, God wants me to love Him PRACTICALLY. “Love Me with all your strength.” Your abilities.
The truth is that even though God created the entire world in the universe and He created you, there are three things God does not have unless you give them to Him. He doesn’t have your AFFECTION unless you give it to Him. That’s loving God with your heart and your soul. He doesn’t have your ATTENTION unless you give it to Him. That’s loving God with your mind. And God doesn’t have your ABILITY unless you give it to Him. That’s loving God with your strength.
The greatest way to express affection to God is by giving your life to Him, by yielding yourself to Him. YOU CAN GIVE WITHOUT LOVING. BUT YOU CANNOT LOVE WITHOUT GIVING. You have to give. ROMANS 6:13 (NLT) “GIVE YOURSELF COMPLETELY TO GOD SINCE YOU’VE BEEN GIVEN NEW LIFE.”
The most important thing you can know in life is that God loves you. And the most important thing you can do in life is love Him back. So when you get up every morning before you get out of bed sit on the edge of your bed and say something like this, I want to know You a little bit better and I want to love You a little bit more.” If you do that, at the end of your day no matter how bad the day has gone, that day was a success.
I challenge you to make as the number one goal of your life before everything else getting to know and love God because that brings Him pleasure. Make as your goal what Paul said. 2 COR 5:9 (NIV) “SO WE MAKE IT OUR GOAL TO PLEASE HIM.”
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