To Love God for Eternity and Beyond with All our Hearts
Almighty God loved us first. We owe to God nothing less. Than to love Him forever and then for always.
Love God with All Your Soul and Strength.
Love God with all your soul and strength.
With all your heart and mind;
And love your neighbor as yourself:
Be faithful, just, and kind.Deal with another as you’d have
Another deal with you:
What you’re unwilling to receive,
Be sure you never do.(Isaac Watts, 1715)
Introduction. Responding to Almighty God’s love with our whole being. Expressing God’s love by sharing His compassion, consideration and kindness. To all His people — ALWAYS!!!
Scripture Reading: Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love Him and keep His commandments, to a thousand generations. (Deuteronomy 7:9, ESV)
Almighty God did not place us on His wonderful planet. To fulfill our wildest dreams. In His wisdom. And, through His love for us. God placed us here to love Him. To truly love our Heavenly Father with all our heart, soul, mind and strength.
Scripture Reading: And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength. (Mark 12:30, NLT)
This Holy Law and supreme command is not simple to obey. This law takes daily practice. This is an eternal commitment. To the One who created us to love Him and to be loved by Him. But what does loving the Almighty One really mean? And who do we do this?
Loving Almighty God with all our heart. ALWAYS.
This often happens as we speak with one another, with strangers. And as we communicate to the whole world. God’s gift. The wondrous blessing of communication. Has now given all God’s believers the ability, the duty and the responsibility. To share the love we have for God with the whole world.
With modern technology. Very little of our world is not reachable. Loving Almighty God with all our heart. We can now share this love in every country and in every nation — WORLDWIDE.
The most loving thing we can do for others is to love God more than we love them. For if we love God most, we will love others best.
This may appear back to front.
The most loving thing we can do for others is love God more than we love them. For if we love God most, we will love others best. (Jon Bloom, Desiring God Blog)
When we love Almighty God with all our being. We then know the true meaning of love. As we read of God’s love in His Holy Word. We see the purity of God’s love. We see for ourselves love in its truest form. Because God is LOVE.
Scripture Reading: God’s Love and Ours.
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. (1 John4:7–8, NIV)
Love is God’s very nature. Nothing imperfect comes from God.
We are created in the very image of God Almighty. You and I are the very likeness of God. We are the very essence of God. We can only love Almighty God. And all His people because. God first loved us.
Scripture Reading: We love because He first loved us. (1 John 4:19, NIV)
Sharing our love for God means more than. Speaking about Him to others.
It is spreading the powerful presence of Almighty God to others. How do we do this???
By being the true reflection of God’s love. In every act we do. In every word we say. We imitate Jesus, God’s beloved Son. Being the true reflection of God’s love means. We always treat each of God’s people. The way Jesus did. With kindness, tenderness and compassion always.
We see Jesus with the woman caught in adultery. Loving her. When all the others around her. Wanted only to stone her to death. All those around her worked into a frenzy of hatred. Jesus filled with the love of God. Reached out His hand to comfort her and offered her His peace. Jesus stepped out from the crowd and gave to her His love.
Have we the courage? To be the one who steps out from the crowd. To hold her hand. And say the words.
Scripture Reading: When they kept on questioning Him, He straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” Again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. (John 8:7–8, NIV)
Have we the courage to stand in between her and this hate filled crowd? HAVE WE?
This is the love of God Almighty. To be the one in the crowd. To be the one who offers the hand of love. This is the true and sincere love of our Heavenly Father. To love the unlovable. To touch the untouchable. To comfort those who have no one else.
To be the vessel through which the love of our Holy Father flows. On to all those who need Him the most. And we do this gladly. Knowing deep in our heart. God loved us first and always will.
Loving all those around us. In this fashion. We are honoring God Almighty.
We shall never repay our Heavenly Father for all He has done for us. But we can love, truly love those around us. As He has loved us. Completely and with all of our being. ALWAYS.
Gary’s article filled with wisdom and love, Diane.
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