Of course we love God!  We all say we love God.  How do we understand the first of the commandments?  “Loving God with all your heart, soul and strength.”  That means everything we possess as humans. 

We can’t be made to love.  You either do or you don’t.  How do we fulfill this commandment?

To understand, you must listen.  To listen is to remove your personal understanding and feeling of the subject and hear it from the other person’s perspective exclusively. 

                                         So, it is with God.

To understand God, we often interrupt His words to our understanding.  We make God in our image and not the other way around. 

Did God really say that?  Perhaps He means something else. 

Knowing God is not really possible.  However, we can still love God.  We don’t understand His ways.  It is why we have faith.  Faith that somehow God is involved with what is happening to us and the world. 

Loving God is more than listening to His words.  To love God truly is be involved with His work in this world.

   Love involves action! 

                             Christianity grew because of action.

As the Apostle James said  (2:17), “Love without works is dead. You prove your love by your works. “ 

                                   That’s how we love God!