How to Love God and People...
37Jesus answered: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind. 38This is the first and most important commandment. 39The second most important commandment is like this one. And it is, “Love others as much as you love yourself.”
Matt. 22:37-39
How do we love God with all we have? Jesus said to his disciples, “If you love me you will keep my commandments.” We love God when our sincere desire is to please God with all that we have. And how can we please God? The book of Hebrews says that without faith it is impossible to please God. So faith in God is the principal thing on which all other forms of obedience rests. We have to believe that God will do what He has promised to do and that God has done what He has done in us through the death and ressurection of Christ. We have to believe that we have been delivered from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of Light. It is by faith that the just lives and it is the obedience that comes through faith that we express our love for God. By faith you have to believe that you have been set free and delivered from all evil. It is not going to happen after sometime or the next day. You have to believe now when you see the light of God’s word that you have already been delivered from all evil and remain standing by faith. That is how we please God and our obedience shows our love for Him. And when we love God we find that we have love for people too because God sheds His love in our hearts through which we are able to love others.