Love Is…

What does it mean to ‘love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul and all your mind’?

How do we LOVE God?

Verses, quotes, wonderings are welcome. I don’t have much to share. However, I am reminded about an analogy: our love for God and Shakespeare’s story of Romeo and Juliet. A beautiful love story (yes, also tragic). A love that is consuming and powerful. The ’til death do us part’ journey of two ‘star crossed lovers’. 

When I contemplate God, my heart is full. I want to follow him, I want to trust him. When I forget God, I live for myself, become concerned with selfish desires and worry. Yes, this love is powerful. A love that moves me to love others, and live a great story. How about you?

Love.  This crazy love thing that is God that is.  And how little I understand about it.  So while I have known these verses since I was a little girl, these are the verses that are on my mind these days…

(Matthew 22:34-36  for context)

 ³⁴Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. ³⁵One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question:  ³⁶“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

And these which I am trying to figure out just a little bit how one goes about doing this…

³⁷Jesus replied: ” ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’^{[b] 38}This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’^{[c] 40}All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

I’d love to hear your thoughts.