Dont Love Anyone More Than God

This includes our love for ourselves and our own life.

Dont love anyone more than god. But it s also like football because even though we all watch the same touchdown and erupt together wild with joy some fans are happier than others. A love that is stronger than death. That s why any thought that tells you i don t love you is a lie. Get to know him more.

And everyone who loves is born of god and knows god. I don t think i even love my family. Jesus said if we love anything more than him we are not worthy of him matthew 10 37 38. In john 12 25 jesus took this thought a step further when he said anyone who loves their life will lose it while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life not loving the world extends to our own lives as well.

The one who does not love does not know god for god is love. 37 he that loveth father or mother more than me the words are important partly in themselves partly as explaining the stronger phrase of luke 14 26 27 which speaks of a man hating father or mother as a condition of discipleship where two affections come into collision the weaker must give way. Like god we must love him supremely in order to love everything else best. Because i am love.

When you see me you see eyes full of love. And though the man may not and ought not to cease to love yet he must act as if he hated. I don t think i can honestly say that i love anyone. God s love is something like that.

To know him is to love him. Spend some quality time with god. Continue submitting to the holy spirit and confess to god that you cannot overcome these struggles on your own none of us can. There used to be people i loved but not anymore.

Since the 1 st commandment demands that we have no gods other than the one true god and that we love that god we now hear that we should not love any human being more than god. Beloved if god so loved us we also ought to love one another. A love that is stronger than anything you will ever be able to comprehend. The horrible result of not loving god most.

For god to love something or someone more than himself would be inappropriate perverted immoral. I don t think i feel any real compassion for anyone anymore either. When we or anything else if that s possible become our supreme love instead of god love becomes distorted and diseased. That s also why any thought or feeling which tells you i m not there for you is a lie.

And i m not talking romantic love just in general. In fact if we do not love others we do not love god. We all share the same great feast so no matter the different sizes of our appetites we all end up happy and full with no need to compare who got more. I don t know if i am posting this in the right section but here goes.