Love For God
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.” This is the first commandment.
Mark 12:30
In addition to the words of Jesus in today’s verse, other New Testament books make it clear that believers are to love God. Paul wrote to the Corinthians, quoting from the prophet Isaiah, “‘Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him’” (1 Cor 2:9). Elsewhere the apostle refers to Christians as “those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity” (Eph 6:24).
Sincere love for God is the first mark of genuine saving faith. That is true “because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us” (Rom 5:5). In view of all this, it’s no accident that Paul lists love as the first aspect of the Spirit’s fruit (Gal 5:22).
MacArthur, J. (2001). Truth for today : A daily touch of God's grace (Page 278). Nashville, Tenn.: J. Countryman.
Lessons Learned: Christ summed up The Law into just two commandments. The first is to love God completely, entirely, absolutely, totally, genuinely with all of your being and the second is to love all men genuinely as well. What does God require of us? What were we made for? We were made to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. We were made to please Him and to love Him. "What does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul" (Deu 10:12). A genuine and sincere love for God comes from the Holy Spirit who poured it into our hearts (Rom 5:5), but that kind of love can only come from God's children, who have faith and who are in Christ.
Applications: God's laws are not difficult to keep. They can all be summarized into two basic principals: love God and love others. If you keep these commands, then you will be following The Law and all The Commandments. Make your daily decisions in keeping with these two principals, take the course of action which best demonstrates love for God and love for others, and you will be pleasing and glorifying Him.
Prayer Subjects: Pray for the Holy Spirit to fill my heart with the love of God. Pray that I would meditate on these principals of love and remember them, so that they would guide my thoughts, my words, and my actions. Pray that God's grace would manifest itself in me as works and deeds which demonstrate a genuine love for God and for others.
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Mark 12:30
In addition to the words of Jesus in today’s verse, other New Testament books make it clear that believers are to love God. Paul wrote to the Corinthians, quoting from the prophet Isaiah, “‘Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him’” (1 Cor 2:9). Elsewhere the apostle refers to Christians as “those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity” (Eph 6:24).
Sincere love for God is the first mark of genuine saving faith. That is true “because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us” (Rom 5:5). In view of all this, it’s no accident that Paul lists love as the first aspect of the Spirit’s fruit (Gal 5:22).
MacArthur, J. (2001). Truth for today : A daily touch of God's grace (Page 278). Nashville, Tenn.: J. Countryman.
Lessons Learned: Christ summed up The Law into just two commandments. The first is to love God completely, entirely, absolutely, totally, genuinely with all of your being and the second is to love all men genuinely as well. What does God require of us? What were we made for? We were made to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. We were made to please Him and to love Him. "What does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul" (Deu 10:12). A genuine and sincere love for God comes from the Holy Spirit who poured it into our hearts (Rom 5:5), but that kind of love can only come from God's children, who have faith and who are in Christ.
Applications: God's laws are not difficult to keep. They can all be summarized into two basic principals: love God and love others. If you keep these commands, then you will be following The Law and all The Commandments. Make your daily decisions in keeping with these two principals, take the course of action which best demonstrates love for God and love for others, and you will be pleasing and glorifying Him.
Prayer Subjects: Pray for the Holy Spirit to fill my heart with the love of God. Pray that I would meditate on these principals of love and remember them, so that they would guide my thoughts, my words, and my actions. Pray that God's grace would manifest itself in me as works and deeds which demonstrate a genuine love for God and for others.
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