Sunday, April 26, 2015

Totally Loving God


Matt. 22:37-40  Jesus replied, "You must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.  This is the first and greatest commandment.  A second is equally important.  'Love your neighbor as yourself.'  All the other commandments of the Lord are based on these two commandments."

Have you ever loved the Lord with all of you?  Can you honestly say that He is so powerfully wonderful to you that you desire nothing else in life but to love and be loved by Him?  Let's face it.  We rarely love the Lord in that way.  We may have momentary flashes of such intense love for Him, but it soon fades away amid the many happenings of our lives.  We try to love Him as we should, but we find ourselves acting in an unloving way.  So, are we excused?  Should we resign ourselves to being failures at love?  I don't believe so.  I believe we should continue to strive to love Him; we should continue to do those things that would feed the flame of love: daily devotions, faithful worship, faithful involvement in the life of the church, and faithfully serving the Lord in all we do.

We struggle with loving the Lord as we should and fail to love others (and ourselves) as we should.  We fail mainly on an earthly plane because we first fail on the heavenly plane.  We can't love others as we should unless we first love God and then ourselves as we should.  Love requires respect.  Until we respect the object(s) of our love, we will never really love.  There are many infatuations that we think are love, but they aren't the real deal. 

Love is best defined by God because He is love.  Check out what He says love is in I Corinthians 13:4-8.  Love is not an emotion we feel at the moment, it is a life we live every moment.  It is connection with God that never comes unplugged.  It is letting the Lord be the source of all we are.  It is striving to be more and more like Him as we journey through life. 

2 comments:

  1. Hello Pastor. So good to know you thorugh your profile on the blogger. I am also glad to stop by your blog post and go through it. I am blessed by your post on "Totally loving God". I am from Mumbai, India the other part of the World but the Lord has purpose in getting us know by each other. It is amazing to see how the Lord connects His people globally to fulfill His plans in their lives. I am also in the Pastoral ministry for last 37yrs in this great city of Mumbai a city with great contrast where richest of rich and the poorest of poor live. We reach out to the poorest of poor with the love of Christ to bring healing to the broken hearted. We also encourage young and the adults from the West to come to Mumbai to work with us during their vacation time. We would love to have your young and the adults come to Mumbai to work with us during their vacation time. Even we would love to have you come withh some of your members for the ministry of the Word of God and to work with us in the slums amongst poorest of poor. I am sure young people as well as adults will have a life changing experience. God willing I will be coming to the States in the month of August and will be so happy to stop by your place and meet with you and share with you more about the ministry to the poorest of poor and also the opportunity for the young people and adults to come to Mumbai on a short / long term missions trip. My email id is: dhwankhede(at)gmail(dot)com and my name is Diwakar Wankhede. Looking forward to hear from you very soon. God's richest blessing on your family and the ministry.

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  2. Hello Pastor. So good to know you thorugh your profile on the blogger. I am also glad to stop by your blog post and go through it. I am blessed by your post on "Totally loving God". I am from Mumbai, India the other part of the World but the Lord has purpose in getting us know by each other. It is amazing to see how the Lord connects His people globally to fulfill His plans in their lives. I am also in the Pastoral ministry for last 37yrs in this great city of Mumbai a city with great contrast where richest of rich and the poorest of poor live. We reach out to the poorest of poor with the love of Christ to bring healing to the broken hearted. We also encourage young and the adults from the West to come to Mumbai to work with us during their vacation time. We would love to have your young and the adults come to Mumbai to work with us during their vacation time. Even we would love to have you come withh some of your members for the ministry of the Word of God and to work with us in the slums amongst poorest of poor. I am sure young people as well as adults will have a life changing experience. God willing I will be coming to the States in the month of August and will be so happy to stop by your place and meet with you and share with you more about the ministry to the poorest of poor and also the opportunity for the young people and adults to come to Mumbai on a short / long term missions trip. My email id is: dhwankhede(at)gmail(dot)com and my name is Diwakar Wankhede. Looking forward to hear from you very soon. God's richest blessing on your family and the ministry.

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