LOVE GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART

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Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
Matthew 22:37
New King James Version

Loving God WITH ALL our hearts, souls and minds means ABSOLUTE/TOTAL SUBMISSION AND OBEDIENCE TO GOD, DOING EVERYTHING according to HIS WORD. HE IS THE WORD HIMSELF. HE IS LOVE PERSONIFIED.

God’s Law of Love as explained in our opening verse, Matthew 22:35–40, should govern every aspect of
our lives as Christians and our interactions with others.
One of the Pharisees tested our Lord Jesus Christ with this question:

Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?.
Jesus said to him, YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.
This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like it: YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR as yourself.
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Matthew 22:35-40
King James Version

Therefore, a Christian’s actions should be motivated by pure, unselfish, sacrificial love-the love of God for our fellow man.
Agape Love.

God’s Law of Love given to us, is the ultimate fulfillment of Biblical law, including the Ten Commandments, as it fulfills the intent of such laws.

All the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: You shall love your neighbour as yourself.
Galatians 5:14
King James Version.

Dear beloved, LET US LOVE the LORD, Our GOD WITH ALL that is within us, WITH ALL that we have got.
WE SHOULD LOVE every person He sends our way, for He FIRST loved us. Christ did NOT die for nothing. We should fulfill what He has called us to do! LOVE.

God is love personified, we are also love beings because we were created out of God's love for us.

We should think, talk and act with love.
We are nothing without love.
Love makes us who we are.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 tells us about the true meaning of Love:

Greatest
1 If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing.
3 If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it;(13:3 Some manuscripts read sacrificed my body to be burned.) but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.
4Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud
5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
8 Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages(13:8 Or in tongues.) and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!
9 Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture!
10 But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless.
11 When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.
12 Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.(13:12 Greek, see face to face.)All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.
13 Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.
https://www.bible.com/en-GB/bible/116/1CO.13.nlt

Love is the greatest commandment given to us by God.
We should love God with everything we have and love our neighbours(others) with Agape Love.

Love conquers all.

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