If the greatest and first commandment is to love God above all (Mt 22:37-38), how must you prove your love to God?

You prove your love with faith, by offering your life (Ro 12:1) in a covenant, to trust and to obey the will of God (Gen 17:1; He 11:8) . There is no love for God greater than this (Jo 15:13).

And because it is the will of God to put your faith in Christ (Ga 2:16) and to love others (Mt 22:39), you do so as a result of keeping your promise in your covenant (He 8:10).

Blessed are you who are given wisdom to discern between truth and lie.

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References

1. Mat 22:37-38: ““Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.”"

2. Ro 12:1: “… offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.”

3. Gen 17:1: “I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be blameless.”

4. Heb 11:8: “By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place … obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.”

5. Joh 15:13: “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”

6. Ga 2:16: “… know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.”

7. Mat 22:39: “And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.”

8. Heb 8:10: "This is the covenant that I will covenant with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people."

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