How To Love God With All Your Heart,Soul, And Mind

HOW TO LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, SOUL, AND MIND

In the gospel it is written that a lawyer asked Jesus, "'Master, which is the great commandment in the law?' Jesus said unto him, 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.'" (Matt. 22:36 - 40) Have you ever asked yourself, "How do I do that?" Let's see if we can give that question a satisfactory answer...
OBEY - Since we know Jesus to be the Son of God, let's look at His totally accredited view of the matter; He would know best! "If ye love Me, keep My commandments." (John 14:15) So He equates love with obedience? "He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me: and he that loveth Me shall be loved of My Father, and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him." (John 14:21) Yes, He does! Obey His commandments, and you're loving Him! Now the next logical question is, "Okay, how do I obey Him?" I have to know His commandments, rules, and statutes!

READ AND BELIEVE THE BIBLE - There are so many out there who want to get rid of the word of God. Why is that? Because it convicts them! They have not the knowledge that their salvation is in Christ Jesus, and have not accepted Him as Lord and Savior, and so they want to get rid of it, and even deviously destroy its credibility by creating counterfeit versions of bibles so as to distort His word and discredit God! The best, oldest, and most trusted bible is the KJV, NKJV, and Christian Jewish bible, while the most distorted versions are the NIV and the NWT. The bible must be credible in order to have sufficient faith that the word of God is true. If it is not credible, then our faith and trust in Him is destroyed. These devious people work for the devil, who wants to drive a wedge between His sheep and Him for as many of God's children as possible, and we must deny Satan this desire! It would take up too much time and space to write all His commandments here, but if we do our best to obey the two written in Jesus statement, then we obey all the commandments! As you read throughout the bible, you can apply each of the many you find to your life, that you may demonstrate your love. Here's a commandment that many people nowadays are not aware of and break; "Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD." (Lev. 19:28) I don't write this commandment not to put tattoos on your body to make anyone feel convicted or hurt, I put it here because many Christians don't realize this commandment exists, because they don't read their bibles enough to be aware of it! Many have even had Christian tattoos on their body, not realizing God did not want them to do that! So I feel I make a good point that we must constantly be reading our bible to know what all God wants us to do to demonstrate our love for Him. Okay, now there's one more precept -

BELIEVE IN JESUS, THE SON OF GOD - "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." (John 3:16 - 18) I printed not just the most famous verse in Christianity, but also the two after it, and for good reason; God has a REWARD for loving Him! He also has a consequence for NOT loving Him! For all of you that are fathers out there, this will ring true; if your child loves you, don't you love that child back? And if your child rebels against you, don't you discipline that child?   As you created your child, so the Father created YOU! He wants you to love Him just as much as any good child loves their father. "The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice." (Prov. 23:24 - 25) A good child loves their father, and he is pleased of him. So it is with God; if we love Him with our all, so He will be pleased of us! God's commandment is for us to believe in Jesus, that we should have eternal life. It pleases God that we believe in His Son, our Savior; let us believe in Him and obey God. He is our Judge, our Savior, our Master, our Creator, our Rock, our Shield, and so much more. He is our all-in-all! Let us strive to love Him with our heart, soul and mind every day!