How Can You Love God



How Can You Love God
Author: Mark V. Markov

How can You love God?
Without keeping any of His commandments.
God is in heaven,
And you are on earth.

If you just say it with words
But won't do it in action
Would that approach work?

If you were in a relationship
With someone else
On this earth

When you would only say it with words
But not with action
That relationship
Would end up
In a break up

Since it is a very unhealthy relationship
When someone
Only uses words
But won't show love to the other
In action

As we live on this earth
We must have a spiritually healthy relationship
With Jesus Christ
Not only based on
Just with words
But in action also

When you keep His commandments
On this earth
You show with your action
That you love Him.

Jesus Christ confirmed that to us
When He said
If you love Him
You will keep His commandments.

So let us love God
Not only just with words
But let us love in word and deed
By keeping the commandments

Let us also love others
In word and deed
As Apostle John says
In the first book of John.

How can You love God?
Without keeping any of His commandments.
To love God,
With all of your heart, soul, and mind
Is to keep His commandments
To the best of your ability,
As you live on this earth...



John 14:15 (ESV)

15"If you love me, you will keep my commandments.



Revelation 14:12 (ESV)

Here is a call for the endurance of the saints,
those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.


John 14:21 (ESV)

Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me.
And he who loves me will be loved by my Father,
and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”


John 15:10 (ESV)

If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love,
just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.



Exodus 20:1-21 (ESV)

The Ten Commandments

1 And God spoke all these words, saying,

2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

3 “You shall have no other gods before me.

4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image,
or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above,
or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third
and the fourth generation of those who hate me,

6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

7 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain,
for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

9 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work,

10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God.
On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant,
or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.

11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them,
and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

12 “Honor your father and your mother,
that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

13 “You shall not murder.

14 “You shall not commit adultery.

15 “You shall not steal.

16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

17 “You shall not covet your neighbor's house;
you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox,
or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.”

18 Now when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning
and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking,
the people were afraid and trembled, and they stood far off

19 and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.”

20 Moses said to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to test you,
that the fear of him may be before you, that you may not sin.”

21 The people stood far off, while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.



Matthew 5:19 (ESV)

19 Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments
and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven,
but whoever does them and teaches them
will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.


Matthew 19:16-19 (ESV)

16 And behold, a man came up to him, saying,
“Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?”

17 And he said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good.
If you would enter life, keep the commandments.”

18 He said to him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, “You shall not murder,
You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness,

19 Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”


Mark 10:17-19 (ESV)

17 And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him,
“Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

18 And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.

19 You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal,
Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’”


Luke 18:18-20 (ESV)

18 And a ruler asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

19 And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.

20 You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, Do not murder,
Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother.’”



Notice in the verses above, in Matthew 19:16-19 (ESV) and Mark 10:17-19 (ESV)  Luke 18:18-20 (ESV)

Jesus Christ is confirming the Ten Commandments by reffering to some of them
Meaning that they are a necessity.



1 Corinthians 7:17-19 (ESV)

17 Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him.
This is my rule in all the churches.

18 Was anyone at the time of his call already circumcised?
Let him not seek to remove the marks of circumcision. Was anyone at the time of his call uncircumcised?
Let him not seek circumcision.

19 For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision,

but keeping the commandments of God.


Very crucial statement by Apostle Paul also in verse above. 1 Corinthians 7:19 (ESV)
Keeping the commandments of God, this is what counts.



1 John 2:3 (ESV)
And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.


1 John 2:4 (ESV)

Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,


1 John 3:22 (ESV)

and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.


1 John 3:24 (ESV)

Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him.
And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.


1 John 5:2 (ESV)

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.


1 John 5:3 (ESV)

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.


2 John 1:6 (ESV)

And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment,
just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.



Colossians 3:17 (ESV)


17 And whatever you do, in word or deed,
do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus,
giving thanks to God the Father through him.


1 John 3:17-22 (ESV)

17 But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need,
yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

19 By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him;

20 for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.

21 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;

22 and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.



1 John 3:22 (ESV)

22 and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
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  • Dougla$Irishman
    A wonderful poem about growing in Christ.
    I was a babe at 22 years old, now 88 and it gets sweeter as time goes on !
    I have never doubted His Saving Grace, am nearing that pearly gate !

    Thanks for the encouragement. 
    LikeReply1 year ago

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