Loving God the Best We Can in Our Lives (TMF:438)

Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Peace to Live By: Loving God the Best We Can in Our Lives (TMF:438) - Daniel Litton
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       It is important that we love God the best we can in our lives because, after all, he is God and is the most significant Person in our lives. To start off, today, let’s consider our love for God, as Christians. A good example of a person who really loved God in the Bible is David. The Apostle Paul told us in Acts 13, speaking of God: “‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’ (Acts 13:22 ESV). How do we be like David and love God then? Well, in the most basic sense we show our love for God by doing all his will he has asked us to do—that is, living by every word God has told us. Jesus talked about this in his temptation with Satan in the wilderness. When Satan was tempting him, he said that people should live “by every word that comes from the mouth of God'” (Matthew 4:4, ESV). He was paraphrasing Deuteronomy 8:3. But Jesus gave us an even further explanation on how we should love God the best we can. He said, ““You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind” (Luke 10:27, ESV).