Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' (Mark 12:30)
Here continues the word of Deuteronomy. The most important command is to love the Lord God. This love is not mere love but the love with the whole being; heart, soul, mind and strength. This love is the love that involves the entire personality of a person.
In fact, it is impossible to possess such love. We do not even know how to imitate such unfathomable love. Basically we do not know the fact to love God. We put love on equal footing with the good record of attendance in Church services, diligently serving church or taking care of neighbors. By doing such noble services, we often take pride of ourselves and are easily discouraged when such activities are not recognized by others. We cannot call such love as love.
What does it mean to love God practically? There is no way to explain it in detail. As we do not know God exactly, how can we say we love God? God reveals himself through nature and the history of the entire world. Living in this limited time and space, we cannot fully recognize God. We can only say indirectly that to love God is to keep ourselves away from what is not God. There are many things in this world that are not God. It is an idol worship to serve and love anything that is not God as their God. It may be mentioned that to love God would mean to reject idol worship.
The word says “love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” It means to love God just as a man who falls into a deep dungeon would contemplate on how to escape from it. If we want to make it possible, we should have an experience of being in a situation of dire extremity.
Here continues the word of Deuteronomy. The most important command is to love the Lord God. This love is not mere love but the love with the whole being; heart, soul, mind and strength. This love is the love that involves the entire personality of a person.
In fact, it is impossible to possess such love. We do not even know how to imitate such unfathomable love. Basically we do not know the fact to love God. We put love on equal footing with the good record of attendance in Church services, diligently serving church or taking care of neighbors. By doing such noble services, we often take pride of ourselves and are easily discouraged when such activities are not recognized by others. We cannot call such love as love.
What does it mean to love God practically? There is no way to explain it in detail. As we do not know God exactly, how can we say we love God? God reveals himself through nature and the history of the entire world. Living in this limited time and space, we cannot fully recognize God. We can only say indirectly that to love God is to keep ourselves away from what is not God. There are many things in this world that are not God. It is an idol worship to serve and love anything that is not God as their God. It may be mentioned that to love God would mean to reject idol worship.
The word says “love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” It means to love God just as a man who falls into a deep dungeon would contemplate on how to escape from it. If we want to make it possible, we should have an experience of being in a situation of dire extremity.
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