For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
– 1 John 5:3

Thoughts on Today’s Verse…

Those who truly love God can abide by His commandments, obey His words, show consideration for His will, and practice according to His requirements in all things. If we do not love God, we will feel that God’s demands are too high and that it is hard to keep His commandments and practice His words. Those who truly love God think it is easy to abide by God’s commandments and practice His words. Just like a child’s dutiful affection to his parents. A dutiful child can obey his parents’ words, do things according to their demands, understand that everything they do is good for him. A child must be dutiful to his parents, which is his responsibility. If a child is not filial to his parents, then he neither obeys their words nor keeps their words in mind. It can be seen that whether or not one can keep the commandments and whether or not one can practice God’s words are the standard for judging whether or not he loves God. God says, “If you believe in God you must love God. If you only believe in God but do not love Him, have not attained the knowledge of God, and have never loved God with a true love that comes from within your heart, then your belief in God is futile; if, in your belief in God, you do not love God, then you live in vain, and your entire life is the most lowly of all lives. If, throughout your whole life, you have never loved or satisfied God, then what is the point of you living? And what is the point of your belief in God? Isn’t that a waste of effort?”