The Code: Loving God
Last Sunday we continued to think about the DNA code for the church: Love God, Love Others, and Make Disciples. Loving God is our spiritual priority. It is putting God first in everything. It is loving God completely, with every part of our being. Jesus quoted the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4 ff) “Love the Lord your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind” (NIV). With all that we are, we are commanded to love God.
That’s easier said than done, right? Most of us struggle with love…loving others and accepting love. We learn about love in the home we grow up in. If love was relatively healthy we became relatively healthy in our capacity to love and receive love. But so many of us did not grow up in homes with healthy love. And so to we struggle with a diminished capacity to give and accept love.
The amazing good news is that God loves you. Many hearts have a hard time believing. But it’s true! God loves you! Give God a chance to help you experience the truth. Give God the opportunity to love your heart, one which often believes it can’t be loved.
The heart that believes it can be loved, is a heart that can grow in its capacity to love. To love God more (and others as well) accept God’s love for you! I believe you will then find it easier to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
