Loving God

Mark 12:28, 30-31 NIV

One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”   Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’  The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’  There is no commandment greater than these.”

There's a call today to a higher service, a better life and a nobler existence. God is calling us to come experience his own life, his own nature and personality. This is the way of love.
If there's a word that has been misunderstood and mis-applied the most today, I think it is the word 'love'. We use it to deceive and to justify lust and infatuation, we apply it for acts of se , even outside marraige, calling it 'making love'. It appears as if it has lost its soul and essence but one fumdamental fact remains: the existence of the fake and the abnormal only goes to underline the potency and efficacy of the original, afterall, nobody makes an imitation of the fake, we only see the imitation of an original product. So is it with love itself.
So many versions and variants exist but God is showing us the original. Its universality is shown by the fact that these verses had earlier been quoted in Deuteronomy 6. This goes to show the eternal nature of love and goes to show that you can never defind love outside of God or explain God without talking about his nature of love. You can't have God without true love and you can't experience true love outsidde of God. Unfortunately, because love is an essential human need, the devil throws up all sorts of variants that look like the real thing. People come to us,looking like the real deal, but they are pretenders, without God and without love. We get deceived because we don't know God or understand his nature. We settle for what is available because we have not experienced the ideal.
Today's word shows us a truth: you can only truly live when you love, and you can only truly love when you know and love God. His life and love in you makes it possible for you to adequately represent him on earth, loving others exactly as he loves and preaching hi power and nature to the entire world. No wonder the word for today states it in that order: love for God first, then the ability to love others in birthed in you. You can't love others until you have experienced the love of God.
Seek his love today. Seek to know God so you can fully comprehend what it means to truly love and truly live. His time of favour is here.