Loving God

Deuteronomy 6:5 (NLT)
5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

This verse tells us our primary duty to God. We are to love God with all our heart. In Hebrew the word “leab” is used for heart and it means we are to love from our most inward part, our conscience, our mind, our will and our understanding.  In Hebrew the word soul is “nephesh” meaning our life that breathes, contains desires, and is the seat of our appetites, the seat of our emotions and passions.  Finally there is our strength or might, which is “m@’od” in Hebrew. We are to love God with all our might in abundance, to a great degree, and exceedingly.

Robert Chesebrough believed in his product. He's the fellow who invented Vaseline, a petroleum jelly refined from rod wax, the ooze that forms on shafts of oil rigs. He so believed in the healing properties of his product that he became his own guinea pig. He burned himself with acid and flame; he cut and scratched himself so often and so deeply that he bore the scars of his tests the rest of his life. But he proved his product worked. People had only to look at his wounds, now healed, to see the value of his work--and the extent of his belief. -- [Ralph Walker, Concord, North Carolina. Leadership, Vol. 12, no. 1.]

Robert Chesebrough had extreme faith in his product and went to great depths to demonstrate his belief and faith. What if we put the same effort in our belief and faith of God and Christ? What if we bore Christ’s scars by our love for Him? We are commanded to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul and strength. Let us show our love for God by living for Him, demonstrating His love for others and giving our life to Him.