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rjsurfs:
Roy,

I don't see where you are going with this...

The answer is no.

Do you keep his commandments?

I could ask if anyone even knows what love is.

Bobby

EKnight:
1 John 4:8  He that loves not knows not God for God is Love.

1 Cor. 13:18 Love Never Fails.

Isn't the beast the sinner in us?  The enmity that causes us to be of the flesh and not fully spiritual and not fully pleasing to God?

Eileen

jakfr0s:
 Hi all, is it possible for me to not love God so early in my learnings here? I mean I truly believe in what the Scriptures say, and Mr. Smith makes it so easy to understand sometimes. I say sometimes cause God doesnt let me see it sometimes until later. I really dont think I love God as it commands in His Word, cause I think I love my family more right now, and many other things for that matter. But God showed me that and I asked Jesus to show me how to love Him more, but that His will be done in His perfect time and not mine. I feel so ashamed in that and I wish He could show me faster. I dont even know why Im here writing this, aside from I do know its God's will. I say that because there is so much turmoil in me these days and I sometimes think that it's Jesus burning the evil out of me. Like when I first wake up He is there in my thoughts, not because I want Him there but because He insists on being there. Does that sound crazy? I know sometimes it drives me crazy, but I still try to thank Him.I find myself asking Him for help almost constantly as if by force. Cause it hurts that I  cant do anything of my own. There is so much that needs burning out of me and it seems He is burning some big ones right now and it truly hurts. I want you all to know I come to you all in humbleness and lowliness. What is so awesome about you all is it seems God makes us think the same thing at once. Please pray for His strength on me as I have for you all. Thank you all and thank God.   

KristaD:
I have only skimmed this thread so forgive me if this is out there and doesn't help anyone :-\ but I keep seeing what is love popping up here. Paul tells us that love:
1 Corinthians 13 (Young's Literal Translation)
 
 1If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

 2and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

 3and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

 4The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

 5doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

 6rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;

 7all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.

This says to me that love is an action as some here have said. Also we know that we cannot do those things without God because those things are not in us but of God as God is love. So from what I see we can only love God by and through God and it is not something that we can strive for or attain on our own. There is a warm fuzzy love emotion, but that is not what matters, we all know how quickly that feeling can go away, He must bring us to a place where we can love Him truly beyond that feeling. It's like a marriage, it starts off with warm feelings of "love" but that can fade and we must LOVE our spouse past those feelings in the way that Paul described. Only with God's help can we truly love God so I don't think it is anything that we need to worry about or condem ourselves for, but yet another thing to  pray that He gives us the ability to love Him. All in His time.

gmik:
Boy, this is a deep thread for a sunny day!! Lot of meat here and I need to reread (print and muse at my own leisure).  I loved all the answers and the scriptures are well worth re reading.

But since I haven't done all that yet....I would say that I can NOT love God.  Sometimes I don't even think about it or try!  My puny little efforts at loving my neighbor fall pitifully short. Why, I am not even THAT good at loving my family! ;)

It is way too deep- until we see HIM as HE truly IS-when we are like HIM- we then may understand HIS GREAT LOVE for us!!!  We will never come close!

IMHO ;)

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