Love the Lord your God. Mark 12.30

Mark 12:30 (NIV) Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.

Just for fun: what is one thing you just love?
What exactly does it mean to love? Is it an emotion? Something you do? An act of the will? Something you decide?
Love God with all your heart… is that an emotion?
Love God with all your soul… is that talking about the same thing or something different?
What exactly does it mean to love God with your mind?
And your strength… what exactly does it mean to love God with all your strength?
How have you come to love God as much as you do?
How do we come to love God more than we do?
How can we help each other love God more than we do?
What benefits come to those who come to love God with all their heart, soul, mind and strength?
What hinders us from loving God more than we do?
What is one step we could take to move us toward deeper love for God?

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