HOW ARE WE TO - LOVE YEHOVAH ELOHIM - GOD?

A teacher of the law asked Jesus: “what is the first commandment of all?” Jesus answered him, the first commandment is:

Hear, O Israel: YEHOVAH our ELOHIM (God), YEHOVAH is one: (CJB)

And you shall love YEHOVAH your ELOHIM (God) with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your resources. Deuteronomy 6:4 [Complete Jewish Bible]

These words spell out that in order to love YEHOVAH ELOHIM (God) we need to be absolutely, completely, totally committed to Him.

We are to love YEHOVAH ELOHIM (God) with all our heart, all our being, all our resources. The triple “all” encompasses:

1.   totality of devotion – all your heart

2.   totality of person – all your being

3.   totality of action – all your resources

Note: Realize that you cannot do this on your own, using your own resources. In order to be able to become totally committed to Yehovah Elohim (God) you need to commit to dying to self, and then enter the waters of baptism as one who is dying to self and coming out of the water becoming a new creation in the lord Messiah Jesus receiving the Yehovah’s Spirit, that will give you the indwelling enabling power to become totally committed to Him in all you say and so.

In answering the scribe Jesus follows up with the second great commandment, which shows us one more way we can be committed to loving Yehovah Elohim (God)

Mark 12:31: The second is this: “You are to love your neighbor as yourself”.(CJB)

When we love our neighbor as ourselves, we love all those who reflect the image of Yehovah, which means everyone. So in loving our neighbors as ourselves, we love Yehovah!

That is the creed of the Messiah Jesus, the simplicity of his message of deliverance – salvation!