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Seven reasons why we should love and obey JESUS


You might have not heard and read JESUS’ first commandment in the Bible that is to love Him (Matthew 22:37-38). I understand you for that. That is why I wrote this article for you to increase your knowledge about JESUS and to help strengthen your faith and devotion to Him. I suggest that you read your Bible, ask JESUS to guide you, and communicate with Him often for you to know Him welI. I myself personally am convinced that we should love JESUS because I know He is good and He has been good to me and my family ever since I was a kid. So I trust, love, and obey Him. Listed here below are eight reasons why we should love and obey JESUS.

1. He is our One True Living God, Creator, and Savior.
It is said in 1 John 5:20 that JESUS CHRIST is our True GOD. He is our Creator, check this verse in Colossians 1:16 which say, "For by Him all things were created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him and for Him." He created everything including us humans. So, just as we love our parents, we should love JESUS for making us, giving us life, and sustaining our lives every day. Not just that, He is also our Savior. Meditate on this verse on 1 Peter 3:18 which says, “For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit.” Therefore, we should love Him as a sign of gratitude for what He did for us. If you have wanted to have a closer relationship with JESUS, please pray this simple prayer:

LORD JESUS, I believe that You are the One True Living GOD, my very intelligent Creator, and my very loving Savior. Thank You for creating me and saving me LORD. Thank You for dying on the cross to save me from sin and hell. Please forgive me from all my sins and cleanse me from all my unrighteousness. I repented my sins, please come into my heart and be my LORD and SAVIOR. Thank You for Your promise of everlasting life. LORD, I want to have a closer relationship with You. Please increase my faith and my love for you. I love You, LORD. Amen.
           
2. To love Him is His greatest commandment.
Matthew 22:37-38 says this, “Jesus replied: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.” To love JESUS is to put Him first. If we love Him with all our hearts, mind, and soul, we don’t allow other insignificant things like money, pride, and greed to mislead us. Let us check how we can show our love for Him in John 14:15 which say, “If you love me, keep my commands.” Since it is the LORD JESUS’ commandment to love Him, it is our duty and obligation to follow and obey Him.

3. He wants our love.
The LORD JESUS in Hosea 6:6 says this, “For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of GOD and not burnt offerings.” It is clear that the LORD wants us to love Him. He wants us to spend time knowing Him by reading the Bible and communicating with Him personally. Take note the LORD answers us when we pray He said this in Jeremiah 33:3, “Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things.”  The LORD wants us to talk to Him and commune with Him. He wants us to know Him more every day by revealing Himself to us through prayer. One good way of showing our love for Him is to desire Him. Let us check this verse in Psalms 42:1 which say, "As the deer pants for the streams of water, so my soul pants for You my GOD." Once we experience His goodness, love, and mercy we will keep on coming back to Him; in other words, we desire Him and love to be in His presence always. If this happens, we are already developing a closer, faithful, and loving relationship with Him. Another good way of showing our love for JESUS is to praise and worship Him. Consider this verse in Luke 4:8 which say, "And JESUS answered and said unto him, get thee behind me Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the LORD thy GOD and Him only shalt thou serve."

4. He will love and bless us if we love and obey Him.
The LORD JESUS told His people when He gave them the Ten Commandments that He loves and blesses those who love and obey Him. Let us check these verses found in Genesis 20:4-6 which say, “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them; for I the LORD your GOD, am a jealous GOD, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.” Also, consider this verse in James 1:25 which say, “But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it, not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it; they will be blessed in what they do.” Therefore we should love and obey JESUS for He has promised to bless us if we love and obey Him.

5. He first loved us.
It is said in 1 John 4:19 that we love because He first loved us. We should love JESUS because He first loved us that while we were yet sinners, He gave Himself for us as the atonement for our sins (Romans 5:8). Imagine what a loving GOD we have, instead of punishing us for our sins; He saved us and showed mercy to us by making Himself man and offered Himself for us through His death on the cross. He even taught us many important values while He walked on this earth and He also wrote the Bible to remind us always of how great is His love for us.

6. He wants us to live forever with Him.
JESUS said in John 3:16 that whoever believes in Him will have everlasting life. That is His purpose of saving us to give us eternal life in heaven so we could spend eternity with Him. What a generous and loving GOD we have! Let us reflect on these verses in John 14:1-3 which say “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in GOD; believe also in Me. My Father’s house has many rooms if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with Me that you also may be where I am.”

7. He is good.
It is said in Nahum 1:7 that the LORD is good. The LORD has proven that many times in my life. He healed me from all my illnesses, saved me from many dangers, and accompanied me every day. One good reason why we should love JESUS is that He is always good. He never changes. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8). Therefore, we can trust that He will never fail us. Also, His plans are not to harm us but to prosper us and give us hope and a future (Jeremiah 29:11). We can trust Him because He promised that He will never leave us nor forsake us (Hebrews 13:5).

To recap, we should love JESUS because He is our One True Living God, Creator, and Savior; to love Him is His greatest commandment, He wants our love, He will love and bless us if we love and obey Him, He first loved us, He wants us to live forever with Him and He is good. Thank you so much, my dear reader, for reading this piece. I hope your faith will be strengthened and your love for JESUS will increase so that you too can experience the His lavish love and the joy of serving Him. I love you with the love of JESUS. God bless.

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