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By obeying him and following his rules
good answer
Jun 8, 2014
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That's a hard question. It's like asking "How do you love your mom," I think you just DO, Obeying Him and reading the Bible is something you do BECAUSE you love Him, but not really HOW. It's like when your mom tells you to do something and you do it, you may or may not be doing it because you love her, doing something isn't always love. But why you do it, can be a way of showing your love.
ya and also if you remember that Jesus died on the cross for us and he loves us then it's more easy
Jun 12, 2014
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Well... this could be two questions. How do you feel love for God, or how do you show love for God? It might boil down to your definition of love. If love is a feeling, then you'd be right, Beefy - actions should spring from that, but you can do the actions without the love.
On the other hand, if love is something you do, someway you treat someone, regardless of how you feel... then you have a whole different ballgame. The Bible often tells us actions and love go hand in hand - but it doesn't often say anything about feeling. As a matter of fact, the love we are told most often to love God with is called Agape in the Greek, which means an unconditional sort of love. A devotion - but not necessarily a feeling.
However, there is an interesting paradox in it all, and this goes for loving God AND loving others.
If you wait for the feeling of love towards someone before acting out that love, you'll often be waiting a long time, and your actions will be unstable, since feelings of love come and go, grow and wane. They're not steady. But...
... if you start acting out love toward someone, especially if it's hard, regardless of the way you feel, something mind-boggling starts to happen.
You start to feel love for them. Maybe not always a warm fuzzy love, but a commited sort of love, the type that tends to last.
So, all that to say - how do you show love for God? 1st John gives us a few ways:
By loving others (1John 4:11-12,20)
Obeying His commandments (1John 5:2-3)
Keeping our word (1John 2:5)
It helps when you are saved....
That's a big plus...
Being saved has a lot of perks
Some perks are bigger than others
basserben wrote:
Well... this could be two questions. How do you feel love for God, or how do you show love for God? It might boil down to your definition of love. If love is a feeling, then you'd be right, Beefy - actions should spring from that, but you can do the actions without the love.
On the other hand, if love is something you do, someway you treat someone, regardless of how you feel... then you have a whole different ballgame. The Bible often tells us actions and love go hand in hand - but it doesn't often say anything about feeling. As a matter of fact, the love we are told most often to love God with is called Agape in the Greek, which means an unconditional sort of love. A devotion - but not necessarily a feeling.
However, there is an interesting paradox in it all, and this goes for loving God AND loving others.
If you wait for the feeling of love towards someone before acting out that love, you'll often be waiting a long time, and your actions will be unstable, since feelings of love come and go, grow and wane. They're not steady. But...
... if you start acting out love toward someone, especially if it's hard, regardless of the way you feel, something mind-boggling starts to happen.
You start to feel love for them. Maybe not always a warm fuzzy love, but a commited sort of love, the type that tends to last.
So, all that to say - how do you show love for God? 1st John gives us a few ways:
By loving others (1John 4:11-12,20)
Obeying His commandments (1John 5:2-3)
Keeping our word (1John 2:5)
Ben has always been smart
hi everyone i'll see what you guys think on this topic and then i will tell you what i think