Love God

He said to him, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. 38 This is the greatest and most important commandment. 39 The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.

Matt 22:37-39 (HCSB)

If Jesus said it, is there any doubt? No not really. Jesus said love the Lord but He qualified that love. If asked we would say, "Oh absolutely, I love the Lord!" But do we really love Him the way Jesus instructs. We sometimes think that love for God means we try to "be good" or we go to church. We make every effort to "not cuss or chew or go with girls who do!" But is that really the measure of our love? No, Jesus says the measure is our hearts, soul and mind. Basically it is this do we put all that we are into loving Him? Do we hold some things back? Is there some of us that we keep in reserve? Jesus says, "give it all." Hold nothing back and love God with all your being. Then you are really loving God.