Matthew 22:37–"Love the Lord Your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all you mind."
This is the first and greatest commandment; a command to love God. But not just any sort of love, for this is a love of the utmost, love in the ultimate sense. The kind of love that dulls books of romance and is full of desire and passion and will but, unlike the fairy tales, it is not a novel make-believe romance. No, this is the love that all other loves look to for definition.
But we should remember to coalesce this commandment with another, chiefly, that "we love because He first loved us." That is to say that the commandment to love arises our of Christ's ultimate love for us. Because of this, it is not merely a commandment; it is love. The pertinent question, then, is not "how well am I obeying the commandment?" Instead, the right question is: "how much do I love Christ?"
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