Faith Capsule: Loving God is fulfilling.

1John 3

Know God to love Him. The knowledge of God is to love and know Him. It is not possible to love God which you do not know. Loving God cannot happen without knowing God. No man is born with the knowledge of God. By His divine grace and spending time in the word of God is the major route to knowing Him. Determination to love God will only lead to one’s termination and failure in the journey of life. It was out of love for Jesus that made Peter determined and declared, “Lord, I am ready to go with You, both to prison and to death.” (Luke 22:33) With the word of mouth, Peter declared his love for Jesus while he was determined to love Jesus with all his heart, strength, and soul. Often time word is easier said than done. Jesus by virtue of Him knowing man and all things said to Peter in His conversation with Peter, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster shall not crow this day before you will deny three times that you know Me.” (Luke 22:34) Peter determined not to deny Jesus but he did just as it was predicted by Jesus. Determination will fail but when we prayerfully desire God will deposit.
God is not a slave master but a saving master who will not force Himself onto us to love Him. God is the one that will make us to love Him if we are willing to. He will also help us when we continually desire for Him. David desired for the Lord when he stated, “One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord All the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple.” (Psalm 27:4)
Loving God is fulfilling. This what will happen to every believer that Love Him to fear Him by fully obeying His word and not just by the word of mouth, ““And the LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be above only, and not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today, and are careful to observe them.” (Deuteronomy 28:13)
It is important to personalize Deuteronomy 30:6 and prayerfully engage it by meditating day and night as we go in all of our ways in the course of the days ahead of us by His grace, “And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.”

Prayer for today: Ask God to circumcise your heart. Ask from the depth of your heart the grace to love God.