To Love God (With All Of Your Heart)

To Love God (With All Of Your Heart)
Author: Mark V. Markov

To love God with all of your heart
With all heart and mind
Is to put an effort
To one's best ability
In keeping His commandments.

That is how we can honor, respect,
And love our Creator
Our God, our Maker

With deed,
With action,
And with words

Apostle John writes
Let us love
In truth and in deed
Apostle James writes
Faith without works
Is useless

To love God with all of your heart
With all heart and mind
Is to put an effort
To one's best ability
In keeping His commandments.

That is how we can honor, respect,
And love our Creator
Our God, our Maker

With deed,
With action,
And with words...


James 2:20 (ESV)
20 Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?

James 2:17 (ESV)
17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

1 John 3:18 (ESV)
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

1 John 5:2 (ESV)
2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.

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.


Luke 10:25-37 (ESV)
25 And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying,
"Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"

26 He said to him, "What is written in the Law? How do you read it?"

27 And he answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself."

28 And he said to him, "You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live."

29 But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"

30 Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho,
and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead.

31 Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side.

32 So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.

33 But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion.

34 He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine.
Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him.

35 And the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper,
saying, ‘Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back.’

36 Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?"

37 He said, "The one who showed him mercy." And Jesus said to him, "You go, and do likewise."