Dont Love Anyone More Than God

A love that is stronger than anything you will ever be able to comprehend.

Dont love anyone more than god. God s love is something like that. 10 37 if anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters yes and even his own life he cannot be my disciple. So now you have two powerful deep life transforming commands. Like god we must love him supremely in order to love everything else best.

Once you have your affections lined up properly and love me more than anything or anyone then and only then will you be capable of meeting nancy s needs loving jesus more. Whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me matthew 10 37. We all share the same great feast so no matter the different sizes of our appetites we all end up happy and full with no need to compare who got more. For families does this sound a bit divisive.

This is repeated in matthew 10 37 where the translation is a bit different but the meaning is the same. Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. The point which jesus is making is that the gospel of jesus christ will make you or break you depending on how you might react to it. Because i am love.

For god to love something or someone more than himself would be inappropriate perverted immoral. That s why any thought that tells you i don t love you is a lie. Well jesus said that he would divide families luke 12 49 53. That s also why any thought or feeling which tells you i m not there for you is a lie.

When you see me you see eyes full of love. The horrible result of not loving god most. And he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. This includes our love for ourselves and our own life.

Don t love anyone more than god. A love that is stronger than death. He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. When we or anything else if that s possible become our supreme love instead of god love becomes distorted and diseased.

And love jesus more than you love children more than you love parents surely more than you love anything. Anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me matthew 10 34 37 niv. And though the man may not and ought not to cease to love yet he must act as if he hated. 37 he that loveth father or mother more than me the words are important partly in themselves partly as explaining the stronger phrase of luke 14 26 27 which speaks of a man hating father or mother as a condition of discipleship where two affections come into collision the weaker must give way.