Love The Lord Your God by Nathan Heinritz

On a Thursday night, my friend and I were going through the new release movies at the Red Box in Wal-mart. As we intently looked at the movie selection, we exchanged comments like, “That ones good….seen it like 10 times….that one’s hilarious....too inappropriate. As I glanced away from disinterest a red sign happened to catch my eye, which read Avatar, coming soon! I immediately responded to my friend, “I LOVE that movie.” How often have you heard a friend use the word, “LOVE” to describe anything and everything? A friend the other day told me that he LOVED God and in the same few sentences said that he LOVE tacos and LOVED his new car. This doesn’t make sense that as Americans we LOVE everything and anything. Where do you draw the line? What can we love and what should we like? What does the Bible say? The Bible says in the book of Matthew to store up treasures in heaven and not of this earth (Matt. 6:19-21). Since love is such a powerful word, the real question is what are treasures of heavenly value? The relationships you build with God and with other people is the only thing that will have heavenly value. “Jesus replied: Love the Lord your God with all you heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love you neighbor as yourself.” Matthew 22:37 "Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart." - Psalm 37:4