To many, loving God is an issue of heart and spirit. It is an attitude demonstrates towards the God one believes in and worships. Christians tend to think that spirituality does not involve intellectual activities and mind. As somebody says this, one just need to empty his mind to enter into the church to receive whatever are taught without questioning and reasoning. Immersing in the presence of God is to empty of self and to be filled by God.
Mind and reasoning seem to be useless in our Christianity walk. They are deemed to be something sinful, contradict with the work of the Spirit and the hindrance of love a believer can have towards his God.
Yet how does Bible teach about loving God? Loving God and loving man are the two greatest commandments that the Lord Jesus gives to the Church.
The Bible has ample teachings about loving God. In Luke 10:27 Jesus affirmed the expert of the law that to inherit eternal life is to 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.”
It is amazing to know that Jesus demands a mind that is full of the truth and reality of God. A reasoned faith is worth living for and a reasoned belief is able to withstand the challenges and crisis that intrude our lives. Faith and Belief without reasons always end up more doubts and confusion when one encounters things and situation which he never think of and ponder about.
Our love for God must have valid ground to stand for. In a world that is full of doubts and questions, we need to be able to reason out our faith and love our God with all our mind and understanding.
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