How to Love God

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Good Morning!
When you’re carnal, your understanding of God is based on performance. The closer you get to Him, who He IS becomes more important than what He DID (1 John 4:18-19). Where God wants to meet you isn’t based on a geographic locale, its based on a change in your Spiritual perspective (Romans 12:1-2); He wants you to worship Him in Spirit and in truth (John 4:24). A real worshipper can be in the midst of a turbulent season of life and still praise God for that which He has already done for them (Psalm 100) - Have you reached this level of spiritual maturity? If God never did another thing in your life, could you still praise and worship Him? What people do will always tell you who they are. If you know who someone IS, you can understand their actions. Our relationship with God is no different. Are you connected to Him intimately to the point where you can see that even through trials and tribulations, if He allowed you to go through something, there must be something He wants you to learn from it (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8)? Get closer to Him, learn HIs ways, learn to hear His voice. Your relationship with Him (or anyone in your life) will always be stronger when you can love and appreciate Him simply because of who they are, not what they can do for you.
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