The Importance of Love for God

In Matthew 22 beginning with verse 34 this is what we read. When the Pharisees had heard that he had silenced the Sadducees they gathered together and one of them a lawyer asked him, which is the great commandment in the law? And he said to him, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with allyour mind. This is the great and first commandment. It highlights the individual aspects of the human person, the heart, the soul and the mind. We can love the Lord our God with our affections, with our actions, but also with our intellect. These abilities are traditionally viewed as what it means to