Love the Lord your God

Posted on September 13th, 2004 by hanfaith.
Categories: Deep Thoughts.

Last night, we had our first Sunday School at night with our teens. Adult Sunday School has stopped as well as kids Sunday School, so we were the only ones left. We were asked to move the time to Sunday night when the adults have a prayer and fasting time.

So we are going to do a small group Bible Study on every 2nd and 4th Sunday now. Last night, we started going through our study book on loving God and loving others. One of the most interesting questions, yet one of the simplest at first glance, was “What does it mean to love God?” This was a huge stumper. Mostly we got blank stares. Some teens said, “It’s totally litereral - we just love God”, without getting at the heart of the issue.

Eventually, they started brainstorming more and we got answers such as: to lay your life down, treasure above all else, and constantly considering God in all that you do. Intersting.

So I wonder, in a nutshell, how would you define what it means to love God? We throw around that verse so much: “Love the Lord, your God with all your heart and with all your strength and with all your mind” and sometimes don’t stop to think what that truly means.

3 comments.

Geof F. Morris

Comment on September 13th, 2004.

Defining such things in simple terms is pretty damn difficult.

I would argue that it involves submission of will on some level.

Roger

Comment on September 13th, 2004.

I would also say, that since I love my wife, I put her wants and needs before my own. Maybe that’s another way of saying “submission of will”, though.

Papa Sage

Comment on September 13th, 2004.

Tonight in our Dynamics of Biblical Change class, Dr. Powlison spoke about our only hope being in the fact that God does all things for his own sake (Ps. 25:11, Is. 48:11). This led me to thinking that perhaps one way that we love God is by making our lives all about that which is highest in importance to him, his own glory.

Leave a comment

Comments can contain some xhtml. Names and emails are required (emails aren't displayed), url's are optional.