75. LOVE FOR GOD         --page 624--

         And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. (Deut.6:5).

         1. You can't love God without having faith in Him, & you certainly can't have faith in Him without loving Him.
         2. I don't love the Lord any more on Sunday than I do every other day of the week! I worship Him everyday!
         3. Our best belongs to our Beloved. Second-rate gifts are an offence to love.
         4. In this Family, our greatest love is God & our greatest desire is to serve Him!
         5. You don't have to understand God in order to love Him!
         6. To love God and love the Truth are one and the same.
         7. Never give someone "all your love"--Save it for the Lord Above.
         8. A part of our love for God has to be a healthy respect & fear of Him, & when we are sinful or have done something wrong, to really be afraid of Him.
         9. God's answers to the problems of today as well as to the problems of the past have always been so simple, so childlike, so easy that many could not even believe it!--That the simple love for God & each other can solve all of our problems.
         10. It doesn't matter a damn bit where you worship, here or in Jerusalem, in a church or out of church, under the trees or in the nearest bar or bawdy house, as long as you worship God in your heart, in spirit, in truth & in love.
         11. God created you to enjoy the life He's given you & to love & enjoy Him forever & to try to help others to do the same.

         (See also No. A, P, 117, 154B, 306, 1017, 1380, 1389, 1525.)

         12. PSA.16:8 I have set the Lord always before me: because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
         13. PSA.42:1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee.
         14. PSA.91.14 Because he hath set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known My Name.
         15. MAT.22:37,38 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. This is the first and great commandment.
         16. JOH.6:68,69 Simon Peter answered Him, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the Words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
         17. JOH.14:21 He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me: and he that loveth Me shall be loved of My Father, and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him.
         18. JOH.16:27 For the Father Himself loveth you, because ye have loved Me, and have believed that I came out from God.
         19. 1CO.8:3 But if any man love God, the same is known of Him.
         20. 1JO.5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments: and His commandments are not grievous.


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