FAITH CAPSULE: If anyone desires to love God, God will deposit such with what it takes to love God.

1 John 5 

Do you love God?
What does it mean for you to have love for God?
Many songs have been composed about love for God among the believers and non-believers. 
Among such is the song that says, “Oh how I love Jesus 3x because He died for me.” 
Have you taken some time out to search your heart if you love God? 
Do you love God? 
What does it mean to love God?
LOVING GOD
1 John 5:3, “For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments.” 
Keeping the commandment of God is living by the command of God, either doing His will or being obedient to His will. 
It takes sacrificial commitment to the commandment of God. 
Loving God is a sacrifice. 
Sacrifice is not cheap but costly. 
King David once stated in 2 Samuel 24:24, “No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price; nor will I offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God with that which costs me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.” 
King David was responding to Araunah when he offered David a free land to make a sacrifice to God. 
The sacrifice was to deliver the children of Israel from death caused by the census ordered to be conducted by David. 
The census violated the command of God. 
The rejection of free land from Araunah was a clear demonstration of what a costly sacrifice before God should be. 
Engaging in a costly sacrifice is a proven mark of love for God. 
With God, there is a standard for every area of His expectation for all. 
God did not just ask for love but gave all a standard of acceptable love as stated in Deuteronomy 6:5, “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.” 
To love God is to give Him all. 
Through the pages of the Bible, men and women who gave Him all were able to live a fulfilled life and accomplish great exploits to the glory of God. 
Men like Abraham, Joseph, Daniel, and other giants loved God and were able to do great exploits. 
The approaching of the giant in the hand of God concerning the issues of life depicts what it is to love God with all of their heart, soul, and strength. 
God has not asked all that is not doable.
Are you willing to love God?
To love God should not be a word of the mouth alone, but to love is rooted in the heart. 
If anyone desires to love God, God will deposit such with what it takes to love God.
Love God and have life in Him.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to love God in ways of living.
Also, pray against the spirit that causes one to cease loving God.