The Great Command: Love God

A professor at a Christian college once asked this question: “What is the chief end of man?” His students answered, “To glorify God and to enjoy Him forever.”

To their surprise, the professor disagreed, then told them the chief end of man, according to Jesus, is to “love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.”

We often think of love as just an emotion, a wonderful feeling toward someone. But it’s much more than that.

Loving the Lord means that we trust Him, that we’ve chosen to obey Him, that we desire to serve Him, and that we want to tell others about His love.

The apostle Paul said he served God with his whole heart in preaching the gospel of His Son.

Paul loved God and demonstrated it by giving all he was to bringing God’s message of salvation to the world around him.

He couldn’t stop speaking of the great things God had done for him and for men and women everywhere, and neither should we.