How Do I Know What To Do?

Today's question is, "How do you know you're doing what God wants and not just praying and going to church?" This is a great question. How do we know? Of all the things that God commands of us, how do we know which ones are the big ones? How do we know if we are following the "big one's" today?

Last night we learned, according to Jesus, what the single greatest law was, and is, the Law Of Love. "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength. The second is like it, love your neighbor as your self. There is no law greater than these (Mark 12:30-31)." Jesus says that all of the Law and Prophets (the Old Testament) hang on these two laws. Jesus agrees with the scribe when he says that it's more important than offerings or sacrifices. Loving God and people with every aspect of who you are, is more important than going to church or praying (not that those aren't important). This is what we should be working on.

Wednesday we saw a couple things. First, these two laws, flow out of each other. You love God then you can have the love to love others (even if they are annoying). Second, we saw that if you are loving God and people with all that you are, the rest will follow. If you love God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength, then you'll want to go to church, you'll want to pray, you'll want to obey Him in everything. If you are loving your neighbor then you won't steal, kill, covet, gossip, fight or even pick on each other.

So to answer the question, "How do you know you're doing what God wants and not just praying and going to church?" I'd say do all you can to love God with your whole heart (emotions, thoughts, feelings), your whole soul (purpose, motivation), your whole mind (knowledge, wisdom) & your whole strength (actions, deeds). As you receive love back from God you'll be able to love others. That is what God wants from us, and that is how you'll know, if you are loving.