Personal love for God motivates you to use a divine viewpoint, to think with the mind of Christ. “If you love Me, you will obey Me” (1 John 5:3). Personal love for God is your motivation to use impersonal love with others. So when you love God, you are reciprocating God’s love for you. “We love Him because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19). How do you know if you love God? You obey Him. You stay filled with the Holy Spirit. You advance daily in God’s Word. Loving God develops the capacity for you to love others. Divine wisdom and knowledge are the banks that contain love and keep it from becoming an emotional overload. “This is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight” (Phil 1:9).
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