Every believer I know would undoubtedly without hesitation answer this with a resounding "Yes!" So then, why ask the question?
I believe it necessary to ask this question because I feel as though many of us as believers really don't have a full understanding of what it means to love Him. John seemed to think the same as he has a lot to say on the subject. Lets let him expound on this for us. We wont go into every verse as there are many but we'll hit a few high spots.
1 John 5:1-3
1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus(Yeshua) is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Did you catch that? "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments..."
Ok, John, but what commandments?
1 John 2:7
7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
1 John 3:11
11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
2 John 1:5-6
5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
Ah, the commandments from the beginning... Sooo, when was the beginning?
Genesis 1:1
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
John 1:1-2
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
So, to love God is to keep His commandments.... And these commandments are commandments given to us from the beginning..... Hmmm, interesting...
Now, the question still begs answering... Do you love God?
I pray this blesses you and causes you test what you believe to the truth of scripture. I don't claim to know everything. I'm no scholar. I'm just thatdude with a keyboard, a bible and some kids! So test everything I and anyone else says to scripture to see if it be so. Till next time...
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