The Necessity of Love

Love God With Your All

This is the first and great commandment.

Reading:

What is it like to love God with my all?

Have I placed any command higher than loving God?

How about above loving my neighbor?

“And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself” (Matthew 22:39).

How is the second commandment like unto the first?

What are some implications of loving my neighbor as myself?

Am I ever exempted from the second commandment?

How should the first two commandments affect my adherence to the others?

“On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets” (Matthew 22:40).

What shall I do if I’m hanging all the law and the prophets on something else?

Am I also supposed to hang all my life on these two commandments?

from Matthew 22:40

Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

Reading:

What do I do with God’s Word to me?

What do I do with God’s message through me?

Am I comfortable in God’s presence?

Which communities and peoples and “races” do not matter to me?

What risks and discomforts will I accept in order to declare God’s message?

Does God want me to attempt to effect Nineveh-type community change?

“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me” (Jonah 1:2).

from Jonah 3:3