You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your might. Jesus called this the greatest commandment. All others flow from this.
I'm realizing that this isn't primarily about feeling. You don't love something by commanding yourself to feel it. You love something by giving it priority. By directing your will toward it. By making choices that serve it.
I love my daughter with all my heart, soul, and might. That means when my career demands get in the way, I choose her. When my comfort gets in the way, I choose her. It means I give her my attention, my resources, my care. It's a love that's expressed in action and commitment, not just emotion.
Love God the same way. Not by achieving some feeling, but by choosing Him. By directing your will toward what pleases Him. By giving Him your best attention and resources. By letting His purposes matter more than your own.
I've been a Christian for a long time now, and what's shifted is that I'm finally understanding this. Love is a commitment that generates affection, not an affection that generates commitment. I commit to loving God, and in that commitment, affection grows. It's backward from what I thought.
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