Love God with All Your Soul Back to Basics

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Mark 12:30“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.”
Two key things to love God with our soul—gratitude adorgiveness.
“He has made everything beautifulandappropriate in its time. He has also planted eternity in the human heartEcclesiastes 3:11 AMP
“As the deerpants for streams of water,So my soul pantsfor you, my God.My soul thirstsfor God, for the living God.When can I goand meet with God?”Psalm 42:1-2 NIV
To love Jesus with our soul we need to choose realness over reputation.
Luke 7:36-39 (NIV)“When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, he went to the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table. 37A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume. 38As she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them.39When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself,“If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is—that she is a sinner.”
A few lessons we can learn from this woman about what loving God with all your soul looks like:
She cared more about God than what people thought.
She was vulnerable and unguarded.
She sacrificed.
She was humble.
She was self-aware.
Grattude gives us love for God.
Luke 7:40-47 (NIV)40Jesus answered him,“Simon, I have something to tell you.”“Tell me, teacher,” he said.41“Two people owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. 42Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he forgave the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?”
43Simon replied,“I suppose the one who had the bigger debt forgiven.”“You have judged correctly,” Jesus said.44Then he turned toward the woman and said to Simon,“Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You did not give me any water for my feet, but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. 45You did not give me a kiss, but this woman, from the time I entered, has not stopped kissing my feet. 46You did not put oil on my head, but she has poured perfume on my feet. 47Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven—as her great love has shown. But whoever has been forgiven little loves little.”
How do I lose gratitude?
Complaining
omparing
Forgetting answered prayers
If you feel you have lost your love for God, know this: gratitude can bring back that loving feeling.
Spend time being grateful in prayer
In our lives, we have noticed several things that make it hard for us to recognize and talk about our sin:
We want to prove to ourselves and others that we are not sinful.
We are concerned about our Christian reputation.
We don’t want to change.
We take od an forgiveness out of the conversation.