To love God more is to not put idols before Him. Anything that you put before God is an idol. In other words, the thoughts and/or daily activities that take up the majority of your time leaving none or little for God, then those have become idols. Giving time to God in study or work should be a priority in your day/life. Love God more than the world/self/others and an abundance of love will be left for everything else in/from that Love of God.
Matthew 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
God does not intend for you to not love fully those in your family, nor does He intend for you to not have an abundance of time in your day for your daily tasks. He simply wants you to love Him more than anything else by not putting anything as an idol before Him.
I John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
Ezekiel 14:3-5 "Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them? Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, 'Thus saith the Lord God; 'Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the Lord will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols; That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from Me through their idols.''
Deuteronomy 10:12 And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
In places where "fear" is utilized in reference to God it is usually means "revere" not fear. In this verse "fear" is the Hebrew word yare (#3372) which can mean fear or revere. To love God is to revere Him and His Word. Not to love or follow God and yes, there will be at some point fear. Make no mistake, God wants our love and reverence.
Matthew 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
God does not intend for you to not love fully those in your family, nor does He intend for you to not have an abundance of time in your day for your daily tasks. He simply wants you to love Him more than anything else by not putting anything as an idol before Him.
I John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
Ezekiel 14:3-5 "Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them? Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, 'Thus saith the Lord God; 'Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the Lord will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols; That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from Me through their idols.''
Deuteronomy 10:12 And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
In places where "fear" is utilized in reference to God it is usually means "revere" not fear. In this verse "fear" is the Hebrew word yare (#3372) which can mean fear or revere. To love God is to revere Him and His Word. Not to love or follow God and yes, there will be at some point fear. Make no mistake, God wants our love and reverence.
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