Loving God

Today as I was coming home from Dallas, thinking and preparing myself for camp next week, I was reading in my bible when a verse caught my eye. "Jesus replied: 'Love the Lord your God with all your soul and with all your mind.'-Matt. 22:37
As I was reading this, thoughts ran through my mind and I'm going to share a few of them with you. And if you're going to be out at camp this week or next you might hear them again. So this blog is going to be more spiritual and less philosophical than my usual blogs.
Matt. 22:34 is a familiar passage to many of us, but I think very few of us fully understand what it really means and can carry this verse out. Christ said in the verse that we not only have to love him, but also love him with everything we are. We have to focus our minds on God, since it is now your nature, because we are called to love him with our
minds .
I know that a lot of times thoughts cloud my mind that shouldn't and reflect on impure thoughts or ideas. But by doing that are we really loving God? No, God deserves our love and so we should concentrate on him. We have to let the words we say, the thoughts we think, and the feelings in our hearts glorify God to the best of our abilities. David addresses this subject in Psalms 19;14, "May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer." David was a man after God's own heart and I think his verse shows us one example of why. Even though he didn't always do the right thing, David had the desire to glorify God. I think that we should allow this Psalm to be our prayer and philosophy this week, and the rest of our lives. Pray that the Holy Spirit will turn your thoughts toward God and that God will give you a love beyond human comprehension. And if you are like me sometimes you are discouraged because you don't know exactly what to pray or say to God in certain situations in our lives. One verse I have found that directly addresses this problem is Romans 8:26-27, "In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words can not express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance to God's will." So even though at times and situations in our lives when we don't know what to pray the Holy Spirit is able to translate our prayers to God so that he is able to see what in our hearts we are praying for.
But like I said just a few thoughts I was thinking about. I'm planning on doing a blog in the near future about heros in our lives and what makes someone a hero in our lives. I plan to write and post that one in about 2 weeks when I get home from camp.