KEY SCRIPTURE: John 14:15 KJV If ye love me, keep my commandments.

The Lord expresses a very important point to His disciples in our key scripture. He said if a man loves Him then he would keep His word. The Lord has been speaking about His relation to the Father as well as working the work of Christ, and even doing greater. The Lord said it takes love to do all these things or walk in them. Love for the Lord is the highest principle or law that would make a man to stand out in life. God’s greatest commandment is that we might love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul and mind.

Loving God is that which brings a man to be accepted by God.1Co 8:3 KJV ‘But if any man love God, the same is known of him’. One can profess to serve the Lord yet without any love for the Lord. Many serve God purposely to have certain material blessings. This is an error, for love for Him should be the basis of all that we do for Him.2Co 5:14 KJV “For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:” Apostle Paul was motivated into loving the Lord because he came to terms with the love God had for him. Appreciating God’s love is the answer to having that right relationship with God.

David was a man who lived most of His days to honour and please the master. David took time to appreciate God through meditating on the goodness of God and His greatness, by considering the works of His hands. Psalms 143:5 KJV” I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.” Take time to consider God’s power and love for us in the abundant mercies and goodness that He has shown us. This is what stirs up the love in us.1Jn 4:19 KJV” We love him, because he first loved us.” When a man comes to understand these things, He turns the focus from himself unto God. When a man comes to terms with the fact that, pleasing God, is the reason for living, then has he or she found the meaning to being alive.

THOUGHT: LOVE FOR GOD, BEGINS WITH APPRECIATING HIS LOVE FOR US

FURTHER STUDIES

1Jn 4:16 KJV “And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.”

 2Co 5:15 KJV” And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.”