- To love God means to love him with all of your heart, mind and soul:
Matthew 22:37 AMP declares
And Jesus replied to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
- To love God means to love him first, placing him prominence over every other thing/person in your lives:
Revelation 2:4-5 AMP declares
But I have this charge against you, that you have left your first love you have lost the depth of love that you first had for Me. So remember the heights from which you have fallen, and repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, your sinful behavior—seek God’s will] and do the works you did at first when you first knew Me]; otherwise, I will visit you and remove your lampstand the church, its impact from its place—unless you repent.
- To love God means to seek Him and His kingdom diligently:
Zephaniah 2:3 AMP declares
Seek the Lord search diligently for Him and regard Him as the foremost necessity of your life, All you humble of the land Who have practiced His ordinances and have kept His commandments;Seek righteousness, seek humility regard them as vital. Perhaps you will be hidden [and pardoned and rescued]. In the day of the Lord’s anger.
Matthew 6:33 AMP also declares
But first and most importantly seek (aim at, strive after) His kingdom and His righteousness [His way of doing and being right—the attitude and character of God], and all these things will be given to you also.
- To Love God means to keep (obey/follow) His words/teachings at all times:
John 14:23-24 AMP declares
Jesus answered, “If anyone really loves Me, he will keep My word (teaching);and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our dwelling place with him.One who does not really love Me does not keep My words. And the word (teaching) which you hear is not Mine, but is the Father’s who sent Me.
- To Love God means to grow spiritually into His image-producing the ripe fruit of righteousness:
Philippians 1:9-11 AMP declares
And this I pray, that your love for God may abound more and more and you are filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God so that His glory may be both revealed and recognized.
- To love God means to love others unselfishly (seeking the best for others):
1 John 4:16,19-21 AMP declares
God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides continually in him. We love, because He first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates works against his Christian brother he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should also unselfishly love his brother and seek the best for him.
- To love God means to gain and apply real knowledge and practical insight (of God and his ways) in your daily living:
Philippians 1:9-10 AMP declares
And this I pray, that your love may abound more and more in your love for God (displaying itself in greater depth) in real knowledge and in practical insight, so that you may learn to recognize and treasure what is excellent, identifying the best, and distinguishing moral differences, and that you may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ (actually living lives that lead others away from sin)
-Evg.Samuel Meesala