What Does It Look Like To Love God – By Iwalola (Lola) Ademodi

🌺Beloved, loving God with all our heart means giving Him our entire being, including our thoughts, desires, and actions, through devoted time, obedience, and selfless love for others.

🌺It involves making God the central purpose of our lives, finding joy in His presence, and reflecting His love by being patient, kind, and forgiving to others.

🌺This love is not just a feeling but is demonstrated through our actions that show our priorities have shifted to align with God’s purposes.

🌺Loving God must be reflected in our actions through:

❤️WHOLEHEARTED DEVOTION (Matthew 22:37)

👉🏾Giving our “whole being” to God, including our deepest thoughts, desires, and actions, without holding back.

👉🏾Making God the centerpiece of our lives, shaping our actions and faith after Him.

❤️ACTIVE OBEDIENCE (John 14:15, 1 John 5:3)

👉🏾Seeing obedience and keeping His commandments not as a burden, but as a natural expression of love for Him.

👉🏾Demonstrating love through actions like “fearing” God, serving Him, and walking in His ways.

❤️LOVING OTHERS ( Matthew 22:29, 1 John 4:7-8, John 13:35)

👉🏾Showing love for God through how we treat the people around us. Jesus is our example.

👉🏾Being patient, kind, forgiving, and putting others first, reflecting sacrificial love leaning on the Holy Spirit to help us do so.

👉🏾Our family members, coworkers, neighbors, even our enemies should experience God’s love through us, as we depend on the Holy Spirit to empower us to do so.

❤️PRIORITIZING GOD’S PURPOSES (Matthew 6:33)

👉🏾God’s purposes become our purposes for our lives.

👉🏾Setting our primary purpose on God’s kingdom rather than

solely on personal goals like career or money.

👉🏾Seeking first God’s kingdom and righteousness, not out of expectation of reward, but from a desire to know Him.

❤️CONSISTENT TIME AND ATTENTION TO GOD (Psalm 40:8)

👉🏾We must be in the Word of God in order to know His will and

desires.

👉🏾We are to dedicate our time to God through prayer and meditating on His Word.

👉🏾Consistently and attentively spending time with God daily to nurture our love for Him.

NOW LET US PRAY

🔥Most loving God, thank You for loving us so much.

🔥Father, thank You for the example of sacrificial love that You displayed in the personhood of Jesus Christ.

🔥Holy Spirit of the Living God, help us to love like You love.

🔥Empower us with the character traits that will enable to love sacrificially.

🔥Abide with us Lord Jesus at all times.

🔥In the mighty and holy name of Jesus Christ, I pray. Amen 🙏🏾

Have a blessed day ❤️

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