The Lord's greatest commandment to us it to "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. And the second, to love others as you love yourself." Matthew 22:37-39
Learning to love God and people is something we have to actively pursue. We do not need to do these things out of obligation or fear of God(not saying that we shouldn't have a reverent fear for Him). Sometimes we let ourselves file 'being a Christian' into the obligation category. We think that we need to act a certain way or do certain things(*cough* like attend church weekly and volunteer for the newest committee at church) in which our hearts are not in. Seeking the Lord should not only be something we do out of our reverence and love for Him, but something we do because we want to. By continuously seeking the Lord, He will change us and our desires to be more in tune with His. We need to train ourselves to seek the Lord in everything we do so it will become natural, and not something that we do out of obligation to Him or something we put on because we are labeled Christians. When our desires change to match His, loving Him and others will become natural.
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