Hi guys,
I know Jesus says to love Him with your soul,heart,mind and strength,But how can i do that?How i can love Jesus more?Thank you
When a man and a woman fall in love they want to spend time
with each other and if they are godly, they will want to enter into
an exclusive relationship with each other called marriage.
In the contract or covenant of marriage the two people agree to join
together as one and hold everything in common between them and
they make several vows of fidelity, trust, commitment, love, faithfulness
and of giving to each other their very lives in exclusion to all others
in marriage.
On and on, the marriage between a man and a woman mirrors the
depths and binding relationship we are called to in Christ.
If we love our wife or husband, we will trust them and in the case
of a wife, she will follow her husbands leading.
We as Christians are compared to the wife in a marriage.
We are to be faithful and follow and obey Christ above all others.
We are to place freely all that we have under the authority
of our husband, Jesus Christ.
We would of course desire Him above all others and seek to please
Him with our life, manners actions and service to Him and we would never
want to break the trust between us or dishonor the one we love.
I could go on and on but you get the point.
So how do we love God?
We love God by surrendering ourselves to the Love of God
in Christ and receiving Christ as our Lord, as our husbandman
and seek to please Him with our life.
We will follow Him and communicate with Him and discern
His likes and dislikes and become all that He finds attractive
in manner, action and expression of His love that we return
to Him in an exclusive relationship that is above all other
relationships.
Surrender is key in this relationship of love.
If we do not trust Him enough to surrender our lives into His care
then we need His help to bring us to a place of love and trust.
God is so patient and He will step by step show us His love and faithfulness
if we will come to Him and ask Him to show us how to love Him as
only He deserves.
The key to all this is spending time with Him in prayer (talking to and
hearing God) and meditating on His character, goodness, mercy, grace and
love as expressed in the life of Jesus Christ, God the Son.
Reading God's word and asking Him for more of His holy Spirit will
propel us forward in Him as we seek to grow in His love and knowledge.
The Holy Spirit is the love connection between us and the Father
as promised to us when Jesus departed the earth and ask the Father
to send the comforter, counselor and guide to us to help us understand
the depths of this love that God offers us through His son, Jesus Christ.
I could not emphasis enough the importance of God the Holy Spirit
in our lives and His role of connecting us to God in a deeper way.
Some will tell you that they have all of God's spirit that is offered
but I want to tell you that there is always more.
Jesus had the Spirit without measure, WITHOUT MEASURE.
What do we have?
A portion?
No one can claim they have the Holy Spirit WITHOUT MEASURE so
that tells me that there is always room for more.
We all need more of God's Holy Spirit in our lives and less of our own
desires, will, efforts, plans, accomplishments.
We all need as Christians more of the heart of God within us that cries out for more of God's
will in our lives that we might love and please Him as He deserves.
"Your kingdom come, Your will be done on the earth as it is in heaven"
How deep do you want to go?
How much of yourself and your life are you willing to give up so
that you can walk in love and the life that God offers you in Christ?
God gave us His all....God the Son gave us all of Himself and held nothing back.
God loves us with all His heart and with all His soul and with all his strength
as proven to us in God the Son Jesus Christ.
Are we willing to return His love?
God never asks us to do what He has not already done.
God proved His absolute love toward us and asks that we would
allow that love to so transform us that we are compelled to return His love.
Are you willing to make a deeper love connection between yourself and God?
I suggest that you study the baptism of the Holy Spirit as revealed in
the book of Acts and see what God's spirit can accomplish
in the lives of those who surrender themselves to the love of God in Christ.
Luke 11:13
If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
A great booklet to read is called Absolute Surrender by Andrew Murray
and it will help you understand the depths of this love relationship
that God calls us to in Christ.
