Even now, I can guarantee that the way I love God and love others is going to be different than you. You see the world another way, have varying gifts, and are set on fire to do something with them out of an expression of who you are. Even more exciting to me is that the more we individually take on these top 2 commandments, the more the world looks like God intended. I wonder how creative and unique our faith looks as we each live into this lifestyle of love each day.
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Love is all there is to the law of God. But what Jesus helps us to understand by articulating this Great Commandment is that all the various lesser commands are really just principles that help to define love on a practical level, that is, on the level of day-to-day living.
Consider the Ten Commandments, for instance. The first four of them amplify what it means to truly love God. So if we love God we will put him first in our life, above all other allegiances or relationships. And we will reject all forms of idolatry; and will show reverence for his sacred name and his holy day.
The other six commandments help to define in concrete terms how we must love our neighbor. But the Bible also makes it clear that we must try to do good to others, to help them whenever we can. To claim that we love God while hating or mistreating other people is just plain hypocrisy.
According to the apostle John, doing that makes you a liar 1 John But on the other hand, trying to love other people without first loving God is a futile effort at best.
But I also want to consider each of those parts in more detail, beginning today with the commandment to love God. How can we love God with all our heart, soul and mind? What does that mean? The short answer is that it means loving God with everything we are and have. We have to love God entirely , with our whole being, with all that we are. The heart, in the biblical sense of that term, refers not so much to the seat of our emotions as to the center of our personality.
Your heart is your essential nature. Too often we exhibit a sort of spiritual schizophrenia, a spiritual split personality.
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