Loving God
@innertalks (21028)
Australia
January 17, 2024 8:23pm CST
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.”
This is a commandment, coming from Jesus Christ, in the Christian Bible, in the Gospel of Mark, chapter 12, verse 30.
We should always have such a warm love for God, but some religious scholars only have an intellectual love with God.
These scholars appreciate the greatness of God, but keep him at arms length, by developing only a mind type of a connection to him.
Their main aim is to understand God, not to befriend God, through a real love connection.
They never move deeper into a feeling level, real heartfelt love for God.
They never fully connect themselves to God, because the mind maintains a separation, a distanced viewing of God, while the heart embraces God, just as closely as it can ever do so.
The fullness of love makes you want to experience love from all parts of yourself, and so, your soul, body, spirit, mind, and heart should all love God, and in no way should you ever settle just for an intellectualised love, instead, rather than this full loving of God.
In fact, in the opening quote, from the Bible, given above, we are being told by Jesus Christ to love God like this too.
We should never restrict our love, keeping it locked away only in our minds. We should always love from our whole person, which is including our physical, mental, spiritual and emotional selves.
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Never lock away your love. Never compartmentalize your love.
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@mildredtabitha (16049)
• Nairobi, Kenya
18 Jan
You are right. Intellectual love is not real love. We should love God with all our mind , body, soul, heart, strength and with everything that is within us.
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@innertalks (21028)
• Australia
18 Jan
Yes, half-hearted love, and the mind's idea of love, can never be the full love required of us by God.
We need to love from our whole person, from every part of ourselves.
@innertalks (21028)
• Australia
18 Jan
@mildredtabitha Yes, prayer, and scripture study, opens up our heart, and mind to love more too.
We are to love our neighbour, and others with love too, even as we love ourselves too.
"Love your neighbour as yourself."
Mark, chapter 12, verse 31, is the second great commandment.
@mildredtabitha (16049)
• Nairobi, Kenya
18 Jan
@innertalks I agree. Praying and reading the bible is one way of showing God we love him. Treating others with love is also another way of showing God we love him.
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@just4him (306527)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
18 Jan
@innertalks Yes, it is. Thank you.
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@innertalks (21028)
• Australia
18 Jan
Yes, I agree.
That was the second part of Jesus Christ's great commandments too.
The first part, I gave in my article above.
"Love your neighbour as yourself."
Mark, chapter 12, verse 31, is the second great commandment.
@Shiva49 (26207)
• Singapore
18 Jan
The issue is our family should also be similarly inclined.
It so happens they can be materialistic, most are, and take refuge in God as a defeatist, an excuse, to accept a mundane existence divorced from the reality of life.
Even religious leaders get carried away by the glitters of a materialistic life.
I have heard a few say, they are also human!
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@innertalks (21028)
• Australia
18 Jan
Materialism, keeping up with the Jones, next door, will always present itself in our life.
We need to allow the love in us to lift us above mundane living to live from the rarefied height of love in us, loving God, ourselves, and all mankind, as fully as we can do so.
@innertalks (21028)
• Australia
19 Jan
@Shiva49 Yes, life will always be a work in progress, as God seems to want us to learn the hard way for ourselves, instead of being instantly set-up, and programmed to act rightly, and perfectly, all of the time.
He wants us to learn to learn from our mistakes, it seems.
@Shiva49 (26207)
• Singapore
19 Jan
@innertalks It is still a work in progress, or rather, we are mired in a cesspool of hatred and hit-and-run - the opposite of love and what we are capable of.
We punch below our weight or rather punch others below their belt to get ahead by mostly foul means than fair.
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