Love me or love me not 2

Hello Everyone,

Love God Personally – “with all your soul”
“Your soul” speaks of identity the soul is what gives us personality our temperament, our likes and dislikes, our fears and anxieties.

“All” your soul speaks of intimacy we communicate on different levels.
I don’t reveal as much of my soul with a stranger as I do a friend.
I am more intimate with my family than with anyone else.

God wants us to love Him with ALL our soul – on the deepest level of intimacy, holding nothing back.

We don’t have to be afraid to be ourselves when we are worshipping and communicating with God.

We don’t worry about what others are thinking.

We don’t have to put on a mask, or assume a false character when we come into God’s presence.

God wants to change our lives, but He can’t do that until we are honest about what’s inside.

• How can He remove a fear if we won’t admit to it?
• How can He deliver us from bitterness or lust if we deny it?

Not until we come to God as we are will we have the opportunity to leave differently than we came.

Also Jesus says to love Him Expressively – "with all your strength"
Love has to find a way to demonstrate itself. It makes you want to do something.
The greatest example of this is God’s own love. "For God so loved that He GAVE."

I know God loves me because of Calvary.

There, God made the ultimate sacrifice of love – His very life.

Jesus loved us to death – to the death of the cross.

That’s what Calvary is all about.

It shows us how far that God in love was willing to go to save a sinner.

Greater things are still to come!