𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕: 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑮𝒐𝒅

𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞: 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒌 12 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆 24 𝒕𝒐 30.

𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: First commandment: loving your God requires knowing Him, believing in Him, accept Him as your Lord and your personal saviour and keep following Him with obedient heart. To know Him is to love Him, to love God is to worship and praise Him without seasons, Worship the Lord your God and serve him only, the book of Psalms provides many beautiful examples of how to worship and praise our Creator. 𝑳𝒖𝒌𝒆 4:8; 𝑷𝒔𝒂𝒍𝒎𝒔 8, 19, 23, 24, 67, 99, 117, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 150.

𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬: Dear beloved, Our Lord Jesus Christ answered him, and said: The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒌 12:29, 30

𝟏. Dear beloved, our Lord Jesus Christ gave us two commandments and number-one of all is to love your God, which means to put Him first in every thing about your life with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. It’s an undivided love. God is our priority, anyone who love God with all his heart, soul, mind, and strength then, such one wouldn’t allow any other things to crowd his mind. Earthly things are full of confusion, distraction and deception, anyone who desire for things of the world will lose his love for God. But anyone who firstly seek the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these necessary things shall be added unto him. We cannot love this present world and God at the same time; love for what the world offers can lead you astray. 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒌 12:30;1 𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒏 2:15; 2 𝑻𝒊𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒚 4:10. 𝑴𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒘 6:33.

𝟐. Dear reader, to love God is to desire Him, to yearn for His righteousness, His Word, and His grace. “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.” Once we have tasted and seen that the Lord is good, we need to want more of Him in our lives and families. Anyone who loves God, will be like Mary of Bethany, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he was saying. Anyone who love God, would be like psalmist’s description of the Word of God that will resonate within him: it is more precious than gold, than much pure gold; sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb. Luke 10:39; 𝑷𝒔𝒂𝒍𝒎 42:1; 𝑷𝒔𝒂𝒍𝒎 19:10.

𝟑. When a man separated from his lovely wife or sweetheart and receives a letter from her. His first action will be to eagerly open the letter and read its contents over and over. His love for his beloved will naturally cause him to love her correspondence with him. The same is true with our love for God’s Word. Because we love the Author, we love His message to us. We read it very eagerly or enthusiastically and often, we hold it close, and we hide its words in our hearts. The Scripture says: He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. Also, Psalmist said: thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words. 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒃𝒔 4:4; 𝑷𝒔𝒂𝒍𝒎𝒔 119:57.

𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬

Dear beloved, wish to love God naturally and obey Him. Jesus tells us, 𝑰𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒃𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒅. 𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒏 5:3.

𝐋𝐞𝐭’𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐲

🙏My father, glory be to your holy name, thank you for counting me and my family worthy among the living souls in this period of Covid-19. Put an end to effect of Covid-19 pandemic in the lives of victims. And give me more grace to love you the more. in Jesus name. Amen!

𝑩𝒆 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒅𝒗𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒍, 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆. 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒔 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉.

T𝕙𝕖 𝕃𝕠𝕣𝕕 𝕒𝕝𝕞𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕪 𝔾𝕠𝕕 𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕝 𝕒𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕖 𝕠𝕟 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕓𝕖𝕙𝕒𝕝𝕗 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕗𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕖𝕟𝕖𝕞𝕚𝕖𝕤, 𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕢𝕦𝕖𝕣𝕖𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕞 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕘𝕚𝕧𝕖 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕧𝕚𝕔𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕤 𝕚𝕟 𝕁𝕖𝕤𝕦𝕤 𝕟𝕒𝕞𝕖.

𝑺𝒆𝒈𝒖𝒏 𝑻𝒂𝒊𝒘𝒐.