A lot of Christians believe that God wants us to love him the way he loves us. They believe that if we love him, then we will live forever in heaven, or that we will receive his special healing or blessing. In other words, they believe that if we love God, then we will eventually be rewarded with eternal life with the Lord. However, this type of thinking is wrong.

Obeying God 

We’re not talking about simply following the rules, as the easiest way to obey God is by loving others. The best way to do this is to show others the love of Jesus in a practical way. 

Obeying God is one of those ideas that are almost universally accepted as true, yet rarely taught or discussed. While it sounds simple enough, the truth is it is a lot more complicated. We can either accept this fact, or we can be stuck in a rut of never being able to truly love God.

How does God want us to love him? This is a question that has continued to occupy me for a while now. My answer is not the same as what you are thinking. God does not ask you to obey him in order to be good. He wants you to obey Him out of love for him so that through this love you can pursue him.

Responding to God’s love for you 

It’s hard to find the words to describe how much God loves us.  But to paraphrase his own Word, God wants us to love him with every single part of our being. God wants us to give Him our hearts, our minds, our strength, our bodies, our time, and our talents. He knows that our love for him will grow and blossom like a seed in the spring sunlight.

God speaks to us through the Bible, and he does so in many different ways. The truth is, the Bible is a great book with a lot of great information, but it’s not all there is to know about loving God. God wants us to love him in all of the ways he has called us to love each other, but we need to know how to do that.

Serving God

Many people wonder, what is the meaning of serving God? When we serve God, we are following his will and doing what he wants us to do. The Bible says that the first step in serving God is to know who he is. When you know what God is like, you can obey him. Using this technique, you can learn how to keep serving Him. Here are some of the things you can learn:

How loving him will give us eternal life?

What does it mean to love God? What does it mean to love Him with all our hearts, souls, minds, and strength? How can we show our love for him? How can we love him when we are confronted with all kinds of temptations and challenges on a daily basis?

“God loves you. But how do we know if we truly love him?” Many Christians ask this question after reading the Bible or attending church. But is the Bible just talking about loving God “in a certain way”? Does the Bible really say we are “loved” by him?

From a biblical perspective, God is love. As we read in John 4:16, “Jesus said to her, ‘Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.’”

How will God help you in the long run?

We all hope to be rewarded by God in the long run. Some will be rewarded for good things they have done and some will be rewarded for good things they have not done, but all will be rewarded for their faith in Christ.

Life can be messy, and it’s tempting to look for someone to blame for all the problems we encounter—or even just to hope that a simple solution will resolve them all. But God doesn’t expect us to manage all of life’s needs by ourselves. In fact, God’s plan includes us knowing how to depend on him. This means that all the time we spend searching for solutions to life’s problems is time we’re not spending serving him, learning from him, and growing closer to him.

The post How does God want us to love him? appeared first on Human Right Warrior.