Loving God: The Surprise Gift

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Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment.

Matthew 22:37-38

I had been a Christian about three years when I became terribly convicted about one particular thing: I did not love God.

I was grateful to Him, so very thankful for my salvation and the positive changes in my life because of Jesus Christ. But I kept stumbling over what Jesus said to the teacher who asked Him to name the greatest commandment of all.

I later learned that many Christians struggle with loving God, much less keeping the Ten Commandments and being “a good Christian.”

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