The title is one you look at and say, “Well, duh Pat, tells us something we already don’t know.”
I think we look over those words for that exact reason.
It’s one which is so obvious, we move on because it just goes without saying that we just do. But, do we? The Bible is full of how to’s and warnings of what we need to be doing when it comes to loving God.
Deuteronomy 6:5 – 5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
Matthew 22:37 – 5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
Old and New Testaments, nothing has changed. It’s still the most important commandment.
No clichés here ladies and gentlemen, we are to do this more than any other thing in our lives. You see that’s why God makes it clear you can’t put anything else before Him. Your mother, your father, money, things, spouse, yourself, nothing is supposed to come before Him.
Matthew 10:37-38 – 37 “Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
There’s a lot of them we mentioned right there in those two verses.
Matthew 6:24 – 24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
You can pretty much add material substance to that one too.
If we are not reading God’s Word at all the message is we don’t have time for your Word in our busy lives Lord. Is that an act of Loving God with every fiber of your being?
If we’re watching sports and not attending worship, are we loving God with all our hearts?
What have you stopped doing or started doing in your life because God and Jesus matter more than you do? These are the things that speak “I love you Lord”. Words without action are a lot of failed good intentions. Grace isn’t meant to be for everyone to accept the get out of jail free card and live however they want to the close of the show. Grace was for man to repent, reconcile, and get closer to God.
We need to first and foremost love God. Fill your days and nights with Him in your music, in your television, in your reading and in your conversations. Make Him your obsession. He won’t be offended, He’ll be absolutely thrilled.