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Keeping an active love for God alive and thriving is the pursuit of every good and faithful follower of Jesus. Not only does our active love for God help us stay grounded it actually is the most important commandment from our Lord.
We should always be working on staying in love with God.
Do you want to know what it takes to be a great disciple and follower of God?
It’s simple: make God King of your life.
Allow Him to reign in your heart. Stoke the fire of passion for Him, and never let it diminish. Seek after Him with everything you have.
The problem is that we often want to be king. We want to be the one calling the shots while living comfortably.
We must continually dethrone ourselves and place God at the center of our heart, mind, and our soul. Then we’ll find ourselves free and exactly where we need to be.
Repeatedly placing Jesus at the center of our very beings, is how we have unshakable faith and thrive in this world.
Our love for God is fuel for our lives and we must attend to staying in love with God or we risk losing so much.
When our love dries and dulls for God, we become unsettled, displaced, and incredibly lost. And unfortunately, we often do not even notice when our love for God has diminished or taken a backseat.
In order to be a good and healthy follower of Christ, we must keep our love for Him first and foremost.
Every relationship in our lives suffers when love weakens or dissipates, and it’s no different with God.
Your love for God might be strong right now, but keep in mind that our love for Him always has room to ignite and grow even more.
I really want to challenge you to think about what your love for God looks like, what it means, and how it affects your interactions with other people.
To love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, and soul is the first and greatest commandment and the second is similar – to love your neighbor as yourself. There is a lot of meat to chew on in these two commandments and it is the jumping off point to looking at Scripture about loving God more.
If you happen to find yourself needing to receive God’s love then I also have a Scripture post that has Bible verses about God’s love. I also have an article about how to remain in God’s love. And there is also a great collection of worship songs about God’s love I have put together.
May God lead you to new levels and depths in His perfect and holy love through these Bible verses about loving God.
Scripture About Loving God
Matthew 22:37-38 NIV Jesus replied: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment.
Matthew 22:39-40 NIV
And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.
1 John 4:7-8 WEB
Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
Psalm 89:1 NIV
I will sing of the Lord’s great love forever; with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known through all generations.
Psalm 89:2 NIV
I will declare that your love stands firm forever, that you have established your faithfulness in heaven itself.
Psalm 36:5 NLT
Your unfailing love, O Lord, is as vast as the heavens; your faithfulness reaches beyond the clouds.
John 15:9 WEB
Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
Proverbs 8:17 NIV
I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.
1 Corinthians 13:13 NLT
Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.
1 John 5:3 NLT
Loving God means keeping his commandments, and his commandments are not burdensome.
John 14:21 NIV
Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.
John 14:23 NLT
Jesus replied, all who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will come and make our home with each of them.
John 14:24 NLT
Anyone who doesn’t love me will not obey me. And remember, my words are not my own. What I am telling you is from the Father who sent me.
Psalm 119:47-48 NLT
How I delight in your commands! How I love them! I honor and love your commands. I meditate on your decrees.
2 Corinthians 5:13-14 NIV
If we are “out of our mind,” as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.
Ephesians 5:2 NLT
Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God.
1 John 2:5 NLT
But those who obey God’s word truly show how completely they love him. That is how we know we are living in him.
1 John 4:7-8 WEB
Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
1 John 4:18-19 NIV
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We love because he first loved us.
2 John 1:6 NIV
And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.
Bonus Verse:
Romans 13:9-10 NIV
The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
May you choose to love God every day and walk humbly with Him!
