What does it mean to “love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind” (Matthew 22:37)?
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kblackson on March 22, 2010 at 9:50 am
To love the Lord your God with all my heart, all my soul, and all my mind…to me..means that I let Him in, I am totally devoted to Him, and everything that I do is for HIM and His Glory. It means that I do nothing without considering Him, consulting Him, submitting to Him and being obedient to Him. He has my total attention, and my complete loyalty. I give God my first, my last and my only Praise in the waking hours. I desire and work daily to please Him.
When you love a person (romantically), who is made of flesh and blood, you let them in.
You wake up with that person on your mind, you think of them throughout the day, you go to bed thinking of them. You do nothing to deliberately hurt them, but rather you wonder, ‘What can I do to make him or her happy?” You compliment them and take advantage of every opportunity to spend time with him or her, and you look forward to every encounter. You believe them, you trust them, you are loyal to them, you share the deepest parts of yourself with them and listen to them with sincere interest. But most of all, you create a bond. And you do whatever you can to make sure that your bond, your connection, remains strong and unbreakable.
My existence is not complete, without my Father God, my Lord and Savior Jesus, and my Comforter, the Holy Spirit.
Devotion, as defined by Dictionary.com, is “profound dedication; earnest attachment to a cause, person”.
That’s what loving the Lord your God with all my heart, all my soul, and all my mind means to me.
Miriam sena on March 22, 2010 at 5:45 pm
To love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your mind, all your soul; you need to leave the holy spirit to teach yourself, because by yourself we can’t. Since child we are taught at loving what we see what we touch ….
When I pray and feel the holy spirit presence, I can feel that true love to love God it is invisible , but it’s real. Then I can praise and worship in the deepest way….it is amazing!!!
I invite you to do that!!!
mysavinggrace on March 23, 2010 at 5:13 am
I have once tried loving God with my own strength and I realized that it is impossible because God’s definition of love is different from mine. So, in order to love him with everything that I am, I have to let God love me and then respond to His love.
windkissed on March 23, 2010 at 10:01 am
Loving God with all my heart would mean a moment by moment relationship, Giving all of me everyday .
RN on March 23, 2010 at 3:39 pm
Loving God with all your heart, soul and mind means putting yourself aside (flesh) and acting in faith, focusing on things above even when it seems hard and the flesh is telling you otherwise, in other words its letting nothing or no one compromise your relationship with the Lord.
bethanyF on March 25, 2010 at 8:28 am
It means to love the Lord God with everything you do and have.