Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
Deuteronomy 6:5

Believers are often concerned about how much they love God, for fear that they do not love Him enough. How much is enough? The commandment says we are to love Him with all our hearts, souls, and strength—in other words, with every fiber of our being. Which of us has ever come close to that? Add to that, our all-out love for Him is to be all the time every second of our lives. None of us has come close to that either.

If salvation is based on obeying God’s commands, including and especially the command to love God, who can be saved? No one.

This is why we need a Savior. This is why God has provided a Savior: Jesus Christ. As our Savior, Jesus perfectly loves the Father for us because, due to sin, we haven’t and can’t!

Salvation is not based on our keeping God’s commands. It is based on our trusting in Jesus who has obeyed God’s commands for us, and then gives us His righteousness as though we had only ever obeyed God’s commands perfectly.

Salvation is based on His performance, not ours. So trust in Him instead of in yourself. And believe that for those who are “in Christ Jesus,” there is therefore now “no condemnation!” (Romans 8:1)

Do you have reason to praise and worship—and yes, love Him!?