Love- Heaven Bound.

God doesn't mean when He says to love Him with ALL our heart that we have no heart left to love anyone else with. What He does mean is we must LOVE Him FIRST, and then we are capable of loving our neighbor.  If we love any other before Him we are not loving that person or persons with a true love, it's impossible. You can scoff at me if you wish, but it's truth, God's truth. The love we give to others from ourselves is a selfish love if it's not a love grounded first and foremost with concern for their salvation.  So many today think my saying this stuff is crazy. They know they love their family, their children, their husbands and wives, their friends and even if they don't believe in God they believe they love them, and I'm just plain nuts. It's called deception, not mine, but theirs. They DO love but not with a love that is eternal, their love is a version of emotion welling up in them that they've learned to associate with the idea of what love is.  How awful it is for a brand new mother to NOT experience that well-known 'mother's love' toward their newborn. Yet it happens more often that people like to believe. How awful it is to be a child (of any age) to not have a parent who loves them with that supposed love that should be there for all parents and children. How terrible for a parent to never receive the love they are expecting to get from their child-- again, it happens a lot.  We grow up with expectations of what love is and should be and when it goes awry we are left floundering. What happens all too often to the love of one spouse for another? It was there, wasn't it? It was real, right? So if this real, true love simply disappears how can it ever be true and real? Our ideas, our beliefs of love void of God is honestly a very tainted, corrupted sort of love we've been deceived into believing is real.

Love is the hope our SAVIOR came to earth to give to us- a future life with HIM. This is the hope we can give to all our children, to all our loved ones. We must love God first and He'll give us the love we need for all others, a true love void of all selfishness. 

God must be FIRST.

Our treasures- the things we love- must be in HEAVEN.

We are but strangers and pilgrims here upon earth. Our friends and family- our 'loved ones' must be heaven bound- we must place them with God to protect and lead to His kingdom and eternity- and all other love we give to them must come second to the hope of their salvation.

These are FACTS that are so incredibly easy to forget, we push them aside when they don't suit our desires.

Mat 22:37  Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 

Mat 22:38  This is the first and great commandment. 

Deu 6:5  And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 

Deu 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

Deu 30:6  And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. 

Mar 12:30  And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. 

Luk 10:27  And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.