Loving your God with All of your Might

Luke 10:27 NKJV

27 So he answered and said, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,’ and ‘your neighbor as yourself.’ ”

The Greek word translated to strength means “strength, might, and power.” It also means “force and ability.” The word implies exertion and action.

Therefore, the next question we ask ourselves is this: What does it mean to love God with exertion and action?

“Here’s the thing. Jesus gave His life for us so that we can go to Heaven and be with Him forever. And because everything in the universe is His, we can’t pay Him back. We can’t do anything for Him except love and worship Him. So if we can’t give Him anything He doesn’t already have, how do we do things for Him?”

Mathews writes that to love God with our strength also involves developing and flourishing in our God-given gifts . Paul, in his first letter to the church in Corinth, writes that the Holy Spirit gifts each believer for “the common good” (12:7). To love God with our strength is to be the hands and feet of Christ Himself.

1 Corinthians 12:7 NKJV

7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all:

Luke argues that each believer has the call and responsibility to develop our gifts so that we can effectively serve the Body and build up the Church .  We are called to service to the Lord not only for ourselves but As parents, but the gifts of our children.

We must be re mindful of Jesus’ call to service with all of our might

James 1:22–25 NKJV

22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.

James 2:14–24 NKJV

14 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. 18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. 19 You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! 20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? 22 Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God. 24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.

personal testimony

Matthew 25:35 NKJV

35 for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in;

Colossians 3:23 NKJV

23 And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men,

If we seek to love God in our work,in our marriage in our friendships in all we do we will be doing the best we can do. I’m not talking about perfection here. Rather, I’m talking about seeking to honor God by working with excellence insofar as it is possible for us

Romans 12:1 NKJV

1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.