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Jun 24, 2016 · If God loved something or someone else more than himself he would be violating the first commandment (Exodus 20:3) and the foremost commandment (Matthew 22:37–38). For God to love something or someone more than himself would be inappropriate, perverted, immoral. Like God, we must love him supremely in order to love everything else best.
Feb 18, 2014 · But Jesus said the first and greatest commandment is that we love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength (Mark 12:29-30). Which means we should desire God more than anything else. So what can we do? Good News. The good news is that God tells us what to, in Psalm 119:33-40. The author of this psalm is desiring other things more than God.
Nov 24, 2007 · In other words, God’s love for us keeps God at the center. God’s love for us exalts his value and our satisfaction in it. If God’s love made us central and focused on our value, it would distract us from what is most precious — namely, himself. Love labors and suffers to enthrall us with what is infinitely and eternally satisfying: God.
And in one word that is thus: Wherever the interest of carnal self is stronger and more predominant habitually than the interest of God, of Christ, of everlasting life, there is no true self-denial or saving grace; but where God’s interest is strongest, there self-denial is sincere. If you further ask me how this may be known, briefly thus: 1.
Nov 9, 2018 · As our fallen, sinner love is redeemed, it becomes more like God’s love. It’s set upon God so that we even love our neighbor for God’s sake. I love my children for God’s sake. I love my wife, my non-Christian friend for God’s sake. I even love ice cream for God’s sake. I enjoy his glory in creation, in that ice cream.
So, all the more, one who loves God truly asks no other recompense than God himself; for if he should demand anything else it would be the prize that he loved and not God. It is natural for a man to desire what he reckons better than that which he has already, and be satisfied with nothing which lacks that special quality which he misses.
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It seems that God does not always love more the better things. For it is manifest that Christ is better than the whole human race, being God and man. But God loved the human race more than He loved Christ; for it is said: "He spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all" (Romans 8:32). Therefore God does not always love more the ...
