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Do you love God, really?

 


John 14:23    Authorized (King James) Version

“Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.”

The first time direction to love God is in Deuteronomy 6:5  “And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.”  Also given in Mark 12:29-34 and Luke 10:27.   

So then, do you love God as directed in scripture?  I know within myself I fall short of the command [Romans 3:23].  There is no way I can even come close in my judgment to fulfill this.  So what am I to do?

I need to know, learn and understand what love is.  Where can I find out the answer to that question?  I read how God, in Romans 8:31-39 how I am loved, protected, and reassured in the love of God.  I am known of God as seen in 1 Corinthians 8:1-3   “Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. But if any man love God, the same is known of him.  I read in Ephesians 1:3-23;  I am assured.  In fact, throughout scripture, I see the “if” of the Old Testament is that there are rewards and punishment.  But in Paul’s epistles  I see love and grace demonstrated by God of the cross and the believing of.  I can only learn and grow in this by reading His Word to me.  His Word given to me written down as directed to man from God through man for “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.”  2 Timothy 3:15-16.  Then are directed to “ Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers. Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.”

Believe the gospel given to man by the LORD Jesus Christ to Paul for us to study and believe by faith:  “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:”  1 Corinthians 15:1-4.  “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”  Hebrews 11:6.  This reward received is through faith and study seeing how God being love shows His love to us that we by faith and understanding may allow His love to flow through us to the lost for life and edification to the saints.  

So do you love God, then read His Word given to you.  Pray as Paul prayed for us in Ephesians 1, well worth the read and you say love God, Jesus, then read.

“If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.” 1 Corinthians 16:22

 

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