How To Love God With All Your Heart Mind and Soul | How To Love God More | Matthew 22: 37-39 | Mark 12:29-31

In Matthew 22: 37-38 Jesus reminds us that the greatest commandment of all is to love god with all your heart, mind, and soul. So how do we truly love god more? How do we love God more than anything? How do we follow the first and most important commandment? Well, one of the ways we stumble in trying to accomplish this is to "do good things" with the expectation of something from God in return. But God doesn't owe us anything. How well does this approach work with your spouse? Your friends? Your family?

Usually not very well as you probably know from experience. The way to show love is to show it without attaching a string - without expecting anything in return. This is how Jesus showed us his love on earth and shows us everyday. This is how we should approach and build our relationship with God and also each other.

Matthew 22: 34-40:

34 But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees with his reply, they met together to question him again. 35 One of them, an expert in religious law, tried to trap him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the most important commandment in the law of Moses?”

37 Jesus replied, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40 The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.”