The priority of love

Of all the things I could write about, Jesus the Son of God is the most important to me.  Jesus means everything to me.

As I grow older, some things are becoming more sharply focused in my mind:

• My great need for grace.
• Jesus' great graciousness.  
• My profound spiritual amnesia.
• My readiness to trust my lying thoughts and feelings.
• The supreme importance of sizing up my thoughts and feelings with the Bible as the measurement.
• The priority of 'love'.

Love is very important to God.  The Great Commandment that God has given us is this:  Love the LORD with all my heart, soul, mind and strength.  Now, I've noticed something: the more I feel loved by Jesus, the more I want to love him in return.  My experience agrees with the scriptures: "We love because he first loved us".  So, in order for me to keep the Great Commandment, it is extremely important for me to remind myself, via the Bible, that Jesus loves me a lot.  He loves me perfectly.  He loves me forever.

I am amazed how Jesus helps me fulfill the Great Commandment.  He does this by loving me.  When he loves me, I love him back.  And if that isn't enough, he poured his love into my heart by giving me His Holy Spirit.  I am loving other people with his love.


I love how St. Augustine put it in his prayer to God:  "Give what you command, and command what you will."