The first of my 12 purpose statements is “Love God”. It seemed reasonable to me when I was making this list that this should be the one on top. Deuteronomy 6:5 says, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might”. Knowing what the great commandment is, is not the hard part, the hard part is how. As I mentioned in my blog a couple days ago I have 5 specific “How’s” under each of the purpose statements. I will love God by seeking Him. I will seek Him by spending time with Him in solitude daily praying, listening to my thoughts and writing them down in my journal. I will love God by worshiping Him. I will work at thanking Him all day long for everything working at taking nothing for granted and taking credit for nothing that He has accomplished through me. I will be conscientious in corporate worship times to sing loud and to direct the words I sing to Him and pull my thoughts in when they wander away. I will love God by honoring Him by grumbling about nothing that happens no matter how bad it may be, and will choose to rejoice instead, always. I will love God by keeping His commandments and confessing all known sins quickly. I will love God by giving money to Him sacricially to help keep myself from loving the world and the stuff in it and being an idolater. I will be very careful to reflect and examine myself often recognizing my flesh’s proneness to wander away from God and leave my first love.