What Does It Mean to Love God?
Basic need to love
· It’s fulfilled only by our learning to love God and others.
· This is what gives our lives meaning and purpose.
To love (agapao) means
· To totally give ourselves over to something.
· To be totally consumed with something.
· It’s what we put first in our lives.
· It’s a commitment love—it’s submitting our wills and our lives to something.
· We can love (agapao) God, man, or things of the world.
· This is completely different from Agape, which is God’s pure, unconditional Love.
To love (agapao) God means
· To lose self—all our own thoughts, emotions and desires that are contrary to God’s—thus, becoming an open and cleansed vessel.
· To put His Will and His Desires above our own.
· Allowing His Life to become our own.
· This is not an emotional love (storage), but a commitment love.
Three steps of loving God
· Choosing to obey His Word, not our own thoughts and feelings.
- Relinquishing what we think, feel and want, and doing what He desires.
- Denying ourselves—barring ourselves from following the flesh.
- Obedience is the only answer.
· Trusting God to perform His Will through us, not our own ability and power.
- Relying upon Him (with unreserved confidence) to accomplish His Will in our lives, no matter how we feel or what we think.
- Picking up our crosses—and doing what He has asked, regardless of our circumstances.
GOD IS ALWAYS GOOD FOLLOW HIS LEAD .
PRAYER AND TALKING TO GOD HELPS US FIND OUR WAY BECAUSE GOD LEADS IN A SMALL STRONG VOICE.
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