Do We Love God Above All Things?

By Shaila Touchton

(Florida, USA)

We think of them all the time and we trust them enough to share our feelings. This person becomes our entire world and we long and desire to be with them. We love them with all our heart, soul and mind. This said love could be for our parents, spouses, family members, children, neighbors, friends, pets etc., but it's sad that we have a hard time in truly loving God.

Do we love God above all things? God gives us everything we need, and gave us many things and abilities for us to love and appreciate Him. Even though we say that we love God our Lord Jesus Christ, we still have a hard time truly loving Him. We have diverted our mind and love to ourselves, money, amusements, food and drink, clothes, TV, movies, sports and other types of entertainments. We are constantly distracted from God and busy running after worldly and material things. Is this a true love for our God?

If we truly love our God Jesus Christ, we would love to spend unlimited time with Him in prayer, and delighting in God's Word and receive new revelations about Him, communicating with Him in prayer by making confession, intercession, supplication and thanks giving .

We would trust His Word and allow Him to guide us into righteousness. God has an unfailing love. He is compassionate, kind and forgiving of us. His everlasting love endures forever. He created us and lay down His life for us. His love is manifested by His mercy, grace, patience, loving kindness, goodness, truth, forgiveness, and justice.

Jesus Christ demonstrated true love when as God - He humbled Himself and became a man on earth to restore our relationship with the God who created us. God made us to be loved perfectly by Him; to be respected and treasured by Him; His love is infinite. The more we spend time in His presence, the more we understand His love for us. But in order to have our needs met, we often seek this love in other people. This causes us to feel unsatisfied, unfulfilled, frustrated, and inadequate and are disappointed or hurt at some point.

In Deuteronomy 6:5 and Matthew 22:37-38 God has commanded us to love God above everything, above everyone and even above more than our own family members. "Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength".

Do we love God above all things? When we love our God Jesus Christ, we constantly think of God in our mind and heart. We have the opportunity to grow in Him... depending on Him for everything, and He becomes the source to meet all of our needs... physically, spiritually, and emotionally. He comforts us, cares for us, appreciates us, and He gives us peace through the Holy Spirit.

God has spoken to people many times throughout the scriptures by various means. He also speaks to us through others, through direct revelation, dreams, written words, prophets, circumstances, angels, nature, through impressions, events, thoughts and through the Holy Spirit.

Do we love God above all things? When we are walking in God's love, following His commands, His joy is manifest in our heart and He responds to us. We need to desire Him with our whole heart, hunger and thirst for Him and His righteousness.

The Bible promises that if we seek God, He will come to us. God wants to be in our lives, but we must be willing to turn away from the things that are not from God. God gives eternal life to the person who believes in Jesus Christ, and eternal life is God's kind of life. It is a life that comes from God. (John 3:16, John 5:39, Romans 2:7)

"Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through me'" (John 14:6).

He is the First and Last, the Beginning and the End!

He is the keeper of Creation and the Creator of all!

He is the creative agent and the image of God!

He is our Passover, our great High priest and the Head of the church!

He is the Architect of the universe and the manager of all times.

He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

He was bruised and brought healing! He was pierced and eased pain!

He was persecuted and brought freedom! He was dead and brought life!

He is risen and brings power! He reigns and brings peace!

He became poor - so that we might be rich.

The world can't understand Him, the armies can't defeat Him,

The schools can't explain Him, the leaders can't ignore Him.

Herod couldn't kill Him, the Pharisees couldn't confuse Him,

The people couldn't hold Him and Satan couldn't defeat him.

He has been misrepresented by those who don't know Him.

Nero couldn't crush Him; nor could Hitler silence Him; neither can the New Age replace Him

He is love, truth, holy, and a just, unchanging God.

He has all power, all knowledge; He rules all things and sustains all things.

He is the Lord of lords, author of life and salvation.

He is the advocate and the judge of the living and the dead.

He rules my life because I am His child and He is my Father.

I serve Him because He knows everything about me, He knew me even before I was conceived.

I love him because He loves me with an everlasting love.

He is my provider, and He meets all my needs.

When I am broken heart, He is very close to me for He is my greatest encourager.

His burden is light, and His goal for me is abundant life.

I follow Him because He is the wisdom of the wise, the power of the powerful.

When I am sad, He wipes away every tear from my eyes, for he takes away all the pain I have suffered on this earth.

He will never leave me, never forsake me, never mislead me, never forget me, never overlook me, and never cancel my appointment in His appointment book!

When I am in sorrow, He comforts me!

When I am in danger, He is my refuge and my fortress!

When I am hungry, He feeds me!

When I am sick, He heals me!

When people are unkind to me, He is kindful towards me!

When people reject me, He accepts me!

When I face Death, He carries me Home!

He is everything for everybody, everywhere, every time, and in every way.

He is my God; My Father. Who is greater than the father of this world.

He wants me to be His child, a member of Christ's body and to be a citizen of heaven.

So, if you're wondering why I feel so secured, understand this...

I delight in Him and He will fulfill the desires of my heart!

I am free from any condemnation brought against me and I cannot be separated from the love of God!

I have not been given a spirit of fear but of power, love and a sound mind!

I have been established, anointed and sealed by God.

I am assured that God works for my good in all circumstances.

I am significant because I am a branch of Jesus Christ, the true vine, and a channel of His life.

I am God's temple and I have been chosen and appointed to bear fruit.

Do we love God above all things? Everyday is a blessing for me, for Jesus Christ is in my Life and I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me!"

Psalm 14:2 says that "Lord looks down from heaven on the entire human race; He looks to see if any one is truly wise, if anyone seeks God. What a MARVELOUS thing to experience the love of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to fall in love with Him! Nothing in this life can substitute Gods Love!

About the Author:

I am a Writer and blogger and who has a passion for writing on a variety of subjects, including the following areas... technology, manufacturing, engineering and Christianity. I have contributed many articles online and much of my writing is inspirational.

I was born Catholic, raised Catholic, educated Catholic and am now living in the Catholic faith. I have a Bachelor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Degree from NMAMIT, Nitte - Mangalore University, India and other various certification courses in Computers and Networking and AutoCAD.

Now by the Grace of God, I am a stay at home Mom, reading, writing and listening to Gods word, and taking care of my family. God has blessed us sufficiently with all things as we seek him. I want to reach people with God's word through my writings. Being a mother is a blessing given by God.

That is why my husband and I decided that I should continue to be a stay at home mom, because my primary responsibility is being availability, encouraging, disciplining, nurturing, caring, loving, training and teaching my child at all times. And also to be a role model from which my child can learn by catching the essence of Godly living from me. Please Visit my blog at http://scriptureknowledgebase.blogspot.com/ and read my articles at http://www.associatedcontent.com/user/697648/shaila_touchton.html

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Do We Love God Above All Things

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By: Tawiey Louis

Often times God is presented as this big God who is just watching us from heaven waiting for us to sin so he can punish us. Its not everyday that we get to hear about the loving, kind merciful God.

I was deeply moved by this article as it made me realize just how much the Good Lord loves us. Now i feel secure and can take comfort in the fact that i have a big loving God watching over me from heaven who loves me in spite of my imperfections.

By: Fisherman's Daughter

You + you loved ones are blessed by the LORD. Your faith + love for the GOD has blessed you and inspires me + others. Thank you for sharing. Peace + love of Christ !

By: Busi

Very nice and motivating message. We often forget how deep God's love for us, the crucifixion of Christ says it all, but we are so caught up with the things that don't value much, to the love that God has for us. Thank you so much for this message, I appreciate it and I'll remember it every time.