"I love you from the bottom of...

...my mind."

Granted, you won't hear a song like that warbling out of your radio anytime soon.

Love has forever been associated with that lubby-dubby organ behind your sternum, not so much with the flabby grey matter in your skull, which is understandable.

But, how radical it is that God commands us to love Him with all our heart, all our mind, and with all our strength!

God asked for our love; the deepest and dearest thing we could ever give! He did not ask for our blood, our infants, or our maidens, as the idols 'demanded'; no He wanted us, wholly, in delightful completeness, living, breathing, loving!

It's radical, I tell you!

Even more mind-blowing is the thought that He came to show us how He loves us.

Christ earnestly loved us with His mind, exhorting us with parables, Scripture, and revelations. He deeply loved us with his human heart; weeping for us, delighting in us.

And ultimately, He loved us beyond the limits of His human strength, bending , breaking, bleeding for us.

Who can stand unbending in the face of such limitless love? Does it not demand our complete and zealous reciprocation? For now when God says 'love me', and we ask 'how', He has only to reply, 'as Christ has loved you'. Irrevocably our minds, hearts and bodies belong to Him.

I am learning to love God with all my heart.

Further up and further into the joy of knowing God; it's a journey I'm on. He's channeling my zeal and feelings away from other things and towards Himself. He satisfies the longing of my heart.

I am learning to love God with all my mind.

I've been reading Heretics by G.K. Chesterton today, (MAN has it been a head-trip!)

He artfully shows again and again how a worldview founded in God makes SO much more sense than otherwise. God continually satisfies my mind, and keeps blowing it too. :D

I am learning to love God with my strength.

It sometimes takes massive will-power to bend my rebellious spirit to submit to others, but it is a strength that God is cultivating in me. I feel so much love for Him when I'm laboring for things that please Him! He satisfies my need for purpose and work.

Love is a way of life, it melds our intellect, our emotions, and our will in a synthesis of devotion.

Hey, so how can you love God today?