Love for God

My love for God was not complete, nor mature, when I first became a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ as my Savior.  When I read/study His word, He matures me, and I love Him more and more.  Do I expect to be fully mature in my love for God here on earth?  No, there is so much more growth I need in my love for my Lord.

What does God say?
NASB Deuteronomy 6:5 “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.”

You may have heard it said: ‘Love is a choice.’  It certainly is!  We can also choose to love God, to be ‘all in’ in loving Him.This love is not selfish love – wanting the attention on ourselves. 

Love for the living God involves all of who we are – our life, our mind, our emotions, our will and with all of our strength.  It is a daily choosing to have love for God!

~ Take it to heart ~

As you read God’s word, the Holy Bible, do you treasure His words of rich love He has for you?
And as you read, do you have a growing and maturing understanding of love for God?

“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
¹⁵ from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name,
¹⁶ that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man,
¹⁷ so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
¹⁸ may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
¹⁹ and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.
²⁰ Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,
²¹ to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever.  Amen.”
NASB Ephesians 3:14-21